When Qiao Lanshu heard several people talking about her, she immediately felt embarrassed and said, "This matter has been resolved, so please stop teasing me."

Qin Yuanzheng whispered in her ear, "I heard about that person from Xiao Yang, he hasn't been coming lately?"

Qiao Lanshu nodded and replied in a low voice, "He didn't come."

Qin Yuanzheng nodded thoughtfully.

He's going back to the mining area tomorrow. He'll ask Xiao Yang to come over and ask him what's going on with that man.

After finishing their meal, it was getting late, so Deng Xiaozhen and Wang Xue politely said goodbye to each other.

When Wang Xue came, she was carrying a bag of eggs. Now that she's leaving, Deng Xiaozhen is taking out a bag of biscuits for her to take back.

As Wang Xue was leaving, she stood at the door, still declining, saying, "My sister and I came for dinner today, and you've already prepared a very lavish meal. How can we possibly accept your gifts again? Please take them back and don't refuse anymore."

Deng Xiaozhen kept stuffing cookies into her arms, and said with a stern face, "Look at you, our relationship is such that we can't afford to become distant."

As she spoke, she smiled at Wang Haitang and said, "Haitang, you can come visit me with your sister whenever you have time. Don't be shy."

Wang Haitang smiled somewhat embarrassedly.

She glanced into the room and saw Deng Weijun standing behind Deng Xiaozhen, secretly watching her.

Wang Xue declined several times, but eventually accepted the cookies.

She said with a smile, "Then, sister-in-law, we'll be going now."

Deng Xiaozhen nodded and then asked, "Your family member came to pick you up, right? Has he arrived yet?"

Wang Xue: "They should have arrived by now. I told him to be at the gate of the compound at 8:00 sharp, and it's already 8:15."

It's pitch black outside now. Although we have electric lights at home, there aren't many streetlights on the streets, and some alleys are completely dark.

Deng Xiaozhen said, "I'll have Weijun take you two downstairs. If your family members don't come, Weijun can wait with you for a while. He's free anyway."

Wang Xue glanced at Wang Haitang and nodded: "Okay, then I'll trouble Weijun."

Deng Weijun quickly put on his cotton-padded coat and came out: "Sister, it's no trouble at all, it's what I should do."

As he spoke, Deng Weijun took the lead and walked into the stairwell, leading Wang Xue and Wang Haitang downstairs.

After they went downstairs, Qiao Lanshu and Qin Yuanzheng prepared to say goodbye.

Everyone enjoyed the meal today.

I wonder if Deng Weijun and Wang Haitang have taken a liking to each other.

When Deng Xiaozhen returned to the house, she said, "I don't know what's wrong with them. When they came out of the kitchen, I couldn't tell what was wrong with their faces."

Yang Wenyan, who was sitting there drinking tea, said to her, "There's no need to rush. I'll ask Wang Xue tomorrow, and I'll find out."

Sitting there, Deng Xiaozhen said, "This girl is indeed too introverted. She doesn't like to talk and rarely looks people in the eye. With this kind of personality, she's bound to suffer."

Qiao Lanshu thought to herself: Isn't that right? Wang Haitang has already suffered at Liu Jianguo's hands.

If it weren't for her formidable older sister Wang Xue, Wang Haitang might have already been completely taken advantage of by Liu Jianguo.

Every time Qiao Lanshu thinks of Liu Jianguo, she thinks of Chu Liangjun.

She always felt that Liu Jianguo and Chu Liangjun were the same kind of people.

Such people are inherently bad, and they can't be reformed at this age. They should either be sent to a labor camp or sent underground.

In short, we can't let them stay here and harm people.

Seeing that it was almost time, Qin Yuanzheng stood up and said goodbye to Yang Wenyan: "Cousin, it's getting late, we should head back now."

Yang Wenyan immediately stood up: "Okay, it's dark and the roads are slippery, drive carefully."

Qin Yuanzheng nodded, having already taken off Qiao Lanshu's cotton-padded coat and scarf.

Although his arm was injured, it didn't stop him from taking care of his wife.

He unfolded his cotton-padded coat and personally helped Qiao Lanshu put on her coat.

Upon seeing this, Yang Wenyan was speechless.

Deng Xiaozhen: "..."

Deng Xiaozhen glanced at Qin Yuanzheng, and then gave Yang Wenyan a disdainful look.

Yang Wenyan was puzzled by her gaze and said, "What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"

Deng Xiaozhen felt uneasy, thinking to herself, "It's not that men are unreliable, it's that I haven't met a reliable one."

Look at Qin Yuanzheng, even with an injured arm, he still dresses his wife and wraps her in a scarf, he's incredibly attentive.

I heard that Qin Yuanzheng does the housework at home, including washing clothes and cooking.

He said he was afraid his wife would get cold while he was washing clothes, and he was also afraid she would cut her hand while cooking.

Deng Xiaozhen had never seen a man in such a high position who was still willing to do housework like this.

She rolled her eyes at Yang Wenyan and said to him, "If you don't even know why I'm looking at you, what else can I say?"

Yang Wenyan gave in: "If you don't tell me, how am I supposed to know why you're looking at me?"

Deng Xiaozhen couldn't be bothered to pay him any more attention.

Men are most afraid of comparisons.

She went to the kitchen, took a small basket, filled it with six farm eggs, grabbed some fresh red dates, wrapped them in brown paper, placed them on top of the eggs, and handed them to Qiao Lanshu, saying:

"Xiao Qiao, these are red dates sent to me by my family. They're from our own jujube trees, and they're incredibly sweet. You can take them home and eat them, or make them into jujube cakes or jujube buns. The taste is absolutely amazing."

Qiao Lanshu was about to decline when Deng Xiaozhen said to her, "Alright, we're all family, don't be so polite. If Weijun's marriage goes through this time, I'll give you a big red envelope."

Qiao Lanshu was practically a matchmaker, and Deng Xiaozhen remembered it all.

Qiao Lanshu had no choice but to accept it.

As she and Qin Yuanzheng drove downstairs toward the gate of the compound, they saw Deng Weijun riding a bicycle with Wang Haitang on the back, while Wang Xue sat on the back of a man wearing a black cotton-padded coat, presumably Wang Xue's husband.

Four people on two bicycles had already traveled quite a distance.

Qiao Lanshu leaned against the window and looked outside for a while before saying to Qin Yuanzheng, "It seems this marriage will go through."

Qin Yuanzheng nodded and hummed in agreement.

He wasn't very interested in it.

He now wants to investigate Chu Liangjun and see what's going on with this man.

After returning home, the couple quickly washed up and prepared to go to bed.

When Qin Yuanzheng saw that Qiao Lanshu wasn't taking a bath or asking him to take one, he knew that there was no chance for him tonight.

However, Qin Yuanzheng himself was also in the wrong;

It's his own fault for doing that last night while his wife was asleep...

Qiao Lanshu was a little angry after he woke her up in the middle of the night last night.

Even when she's angry, she looks like she's being coquettish.

Then, in order not to make his wife angry, he lied to her and said that his arm hurt, and that he was in so much pain that he couldn't bear it. Not long after, he said that he couldn't use his arm and asked Qiao Lanshu to do it herself.

He used the injury on his arm to coax and deceive his young wife, and she cooperated with him to unlock many new poses.

Qiao Lanshu probably realized that she had been deceived by Qin Yuanzheng, so as soon as she came back tonight, she unfolded both quilts again.

Still in the middle of the kang (heated brick bed), separated by a piece of clothing, she sat there with her hair down, wearing loose and thin pajamas, and said to Qin Yuanzheng, "Brother Zheng, tonight we'll each sleep in our own rooms, you can't come over."

Qin Yuan: "..."

Qin Yuanzheng looked at Qiao Lanshu, who was quite a distance away from him, and asked helplessly, "I promised I wouldn't touch you, did you really have to lie so far away?"

A 2.4-meter-wide kang (heated brick bed) meant that two people each had to sleep at one end, which was really too far.

Qiao Lanshu lay down, straightened her blanket, and said, "It's better to be a little further away. Sleep well, Zheng-ge. Goodnight."

Qin Yuanzheng: "..."

Qin Yuanzheng had no choice but to lie down, unable to do anything about his young wife.

Once Qiao Lanshu was asleep, he went straight over, crawled into her quilt, pulled his wife into his arms, and sighed contentedly.

Sure enough, I can only fall asleep when I'm holding my wife.

……

The next day, when Qiao Lanshu woke up, Qin Yuanzheng had already made breakfast.

Qin Yuanzheng had to go to work today, so after breakfast, the couple went out together.

He left Qiao Lanshu at the gate of the food factory and went to the mining area, intending to find Xiao Yang.

Qiao Lanshu, on the other hand, also had something on her mind, and waited until Qin Yuanzheng left.

She asked the logistics department for half a day off, then left the food factory alone and took a bus.

Qiao Lanshu did not go to the supply and marketing cooperative to inquire about Chu Liangjun's matter.

She guessed that Chu Liangjun had probably already left the supply and marketing cooperative, although she didn't confirm it.

But based on her understanding of Chu Liangjun, she knew that the moment Chu Liangjun was questioned by Chu Haiming, he would never return to the supply and marketing cooperative.

Chu Liangjun was very vengeful; he hated anyone who looked down on him.

In his previous life, Chu Liangjun brought a girl he had picked up back to the village and locked her up. When Niu Weifen found out, she made Chu Haiming break off his relationship with him.

To this end, Chu Liangjun stole a bag of explosives from the construction site where Niu Weifen worked and buried it on the road that Niu Weifen often walked, almost killing her.

Later, it was Niu Weifen's brother, who was a division commander in the army, who found out about this and went to arrest Chu Liangjun.

Chu Liangjun was planning his escape, which is why he made a mistake that gave Qiao Lanshu the opportunity to escape.

It can be said that Qiao Lanshu's ability to escape from the cave dwelling in his previous life was due to a combination of factors.

In this life, Qiao Lanshu felt that Chu Liangjun had been tricked by her and would probably hate her, so he would use explosives to blow her up.

She took a bus to the suburbs where a road was under construction.

Instead of asking at the construction site, she went to the makeshift tin office and found the support staff inside.

The office was crammed with desks and chairs, with men and women sitting together to work. There was no heating in the room, and everyone relied on a stove for warmth.

A woman near the door saw Qiao Lanshu enter and asked, "Young lady, who are you looking for?"

Qiao Lanshu walked in with a smile, and said somewhat embarrassedly, "Sister, I'm a worker at the food factory. This is my employee card. I'm here to ask you about someone."

The woman noticed that her accent wasn't local, so she looked at her employee card to confirm that she worked at the food factory. She also noticed that the girl was young, fair-skinned, and wearing a new cotton-padded jacket and scarf, so she looked like a girl from a good family.

She smiled and asked, "Who is it? I have a list here, let me check for you, is it a relative of yours?"

Qiao Lanshu nodded: "Yes, it's my brother from my maternal family, named Qiao Liangjun. Qiao is from the Qiao family compound, Liang is from goodness, and Jun is from soldier. Can you check for me if this person has come to work at the construction site in the last few days?"

The woman took out a labor handbook from a cabinet.

They were building roads on the construction site, doing hard labor, and needed a lot of workers to help with the work.

Some of the workers are temporary workers, so the requirements are not that strict.

After all, no one dares to cause trouble on construction sites under the jurisdiction of the military.

The woman flipped directly to the very end, looking at the last worker who joined the company. Then, she suddenly said, "Oh, there's a man named Chu Liangjun, 25 years old, who joined yesterday. Is he the person you're looking for?"

Upon hearing this, Qiao Lanshu immediately understood what was going on.

She smiled and said, "No, comrade. My brother's name is Qiao Liangjun, and he's 35 years old. Is there such a person?"

The woman searched through the list of new hires from the past month but couldn't find anyone like that. "Oh dear, there really isn't anyone. Young lady, are you sure your brother from your family is working on this construction site? There are three road construction sites here, and we need to build three roads. Why don't you go ask at the other two sites?"

Qiao Lanshu nodded, thanked the woman with great gratitude, and then left the office.

She walked out into the cold wind. The construction site was bare and dusty. When the cold wind blew, the dust came flying at her.

Qiao Lanshu pondered to herself what would happen if Chu Liangjun used explosives to blow her up like he had blown up Niu Weifen in her previous life.

He will bury the explosives somewhere.

The streets she often walks are all busy with people.

From food factories to supply and marketing cooperatives, and from supply and marketing cooperatives to military residential areas.

There are many people on every road.

If he were to be so audacious as to bury explosives in the street, wouldn't he accidentally injure many innocent passersby?

Qiao Lanshu did want Chu Liangjun dead, but she didn't want to hurt innocent bystanders.

Chu Liangjun went to the construction site yesterday; who knows when he will steal the explosives.

This matter cannot wait and must be dealt with as soon as possible.

When Qin Yuanzheng returned in the afternoon, she told him about it and asked him to arrange for someone to investigate.

And she also needs to report the case to the police station.

Qiao Lanshu turned and headed towards the Public Security Bureau.

As she walked, she pondered to herself, what if Chu Liangjun took a few more days to steal the explosives, or what if he didn't steal the explosives or seek revenge on her? Wouldn't she be making a false police report?

The police are short-staffed, and she can't deceive them like this.

As Qiao Lanshu pondered this, she walked to the entrance of the Public Security Bureau.

The officers at the Public Security Bureau are already very familiar with Qiao Lanshu.

After all, she had just come here with Wang Xue last time.

Qiao Lanshu walked into the police station and said to a young policeman on duty, "Hello, comrade, I want to report a case."

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