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Ye Wenxi quickly waved her hand: "No, no, no, what do you mean by being a spy? You're definitely not one. I just mean that this matter is currently being prepared, and we need to take it slowly. Let me explain it to you step by step, and we can talk while we eat."

Lu Weidong chimed in from the side, "Aunt Li, she's my wife. Would I let her be a spy? You certainly can't. Don't worry, this is a good thing."

"I'm relieved to hear that Wei Dong said that," Li Yanyu said with a smile, picking up a bite of food.

Ye Wenxi laughed from the side, "Teacher Li, don't you believe me?"

Li Yanyu smiled and glanced at Ye Wenxi: "You, you're eight hundred times more cunning than Wei Dong."

"That's because you haven't seen his true colors," Ye Wenxi said with a smile. "He's much more cunning than you think."

"Him?" Ye Wenxi stared wide-eyed, her chopsticks raised in mid-air, opening her mouth, "He...he..." for a long time. Lu Weidong's intentions towards her were usually not for the right reasons.

Lu Weidong held his bowl and chopsticks, eating while watching her with great interest, wondering what she would say.

Ye Wenxi sighed, "Forget it, let's eat first."

While the group ate, Ye Wenxi recounted the whole story from beginning to end.

"I've been thinking about this ever since you told me you wanted to start a class. But Weidong gave me a suggestion: if we approach it from the perspective of the garment company, there will be more limitations. We need to get a larger group to speak out for the success rate of this."

She placed a lion's head meatball on Li Yanyu's plate: "That's why I thought of you."

Li Yanyu chewed on a lion's head meatball and nodded: "I understand what you're saying. Wei Dong is right. If the military families collectively raise their needs, and you step forward to help them solve the problem, the military region will definitely treat this as a serious matter."

She held up her chopsticks, frowning as she looked at Ye Wenxi: "But what do you want me to do?"

"Teacher Li, you don't need to do anything, you don't need to do anything at all." Ye Wenxi rubbed her hands together. "It's just...aren't a lot of people coming to you to learn sewing? Could you...slowly give them some advice..."

Before she could finish speaking, Li Yanyu exclaimed "Ah—" and slammed her chopsticks on the table.

"I understand!" She pointed at Ye Wenxi. "You want me to encourage the military dependents who come to me to learn a trade, and to have them voice their needs, right?"

Ye Wenxi chuckled.

"You should have said so earlier!" Li Yanyu slapped her thigh. "I thought you were going to make me a spy. I told you this, even if you hadn't mentioned it, I would have come to you anyway."

"I'm already struggling to get to work, and after work, there's a huge crowd outside my house. It's the same on weekends. They're all acquaintances, and I feel bad refusing them, but I'm getting old, and I really can't take it anymore."

She picked up the lion's head meatball and took a big bite: "Okay, don't worry. I'll definitely infiltrate these people for you, and I'll pass on your message."

"But we really have to be careful," Ye Wenxi chuckled. "I think we should ask the clothing company to postpone this matter a bit longer, so they don't show their faces too early."

Li Yanyu smiled and rolled her eyes at her, then turned to Lu Weidong and asked, "Do you know how cunning she is?"

"Hmm?" Lu Weidong was eating with his head down when he was taken aback by the question. "Ah... I like it."

Li Yanyu was speechless: "These young couples nowadays, they have no sense of restraint when it comes to showing affection."

"Because she never had any bad intentions," Lu Weidong added slowly.

"Hahaha, that's true!" Li Yanyu laughed heartily.

Ye Wenxi didn't laugh. She keenly caught the key words in Li Yanyu's previous sentence: "Teacher Li, are you finding your work a little difficult now?"

Li Yanyu was taken aback, her chopsticks hovering in mid-air: "Huh? It's alright... it's just that I talk a lot every day. After talking so much, I always feel like I don't have enough energy left in the afternoon."

Upon hearing this, Ye Wenxi immediately put down her chopsticks and bowl.

She noticed that Li Yanyu spoke with a strong voice at the garment company and was just as energetic as the younger generation, which reassured her that she would entrust her with the training and quality inspection work.

But Li Yanyu is, after all, an elderly woman in her seventies; no matter how robust she is, she is still over seventy.

"Why didn't you tell me sooner?" Ye Wenxi frowned. "This won't do. I'll hold a meeting tomorrow to share your workload."

"Hey! No, no, no!" Li Yanyu quickly waved her hands, her voice rising in urgency, "We don't even have enough people right now, who are we going to give them to? I'm fine! I was just saying it offhand."

She kept regretting saying that "going to work is exhausting."

"Aunt Li, it's no small matter if you're not feeling well." Ye Wenxi looked at her and her tone became serious. "I run my own business, so we don't follow that 'selfless labor for production' mentality. Nothing is more important to us than your health."

Li Yanyu wanted to say something more, but then she saw Lu Weidong put down his chopsticks and look at her:

"Aunt Li, Wenxi is right. Nothing is more important than your health. If you get sick from overwork, Wenxi will get upset. Listen to her, don't push yourself."

Li Yanyu was taken aback for a moment, then looked at Lu Weidong's serious face, then at Ye Wenxi, and burst out laughing: "Alright, alright, you two are really going at it together, I can't argue with you. I'll listen to you, we'll assign tasks at the meeting tomorrow."

After dinner, the two of them took Li Yanyu home. On the way back, the moon had already risen, the streetlights were dim, and a cool summer breeze carrying the scent of grass blew in gusts. Ye Wenxi's long hair was lifted by the wind and kept brushing against Lu Weidong's arm.

As the number of people around them dwindled, Ye Wenxi took Lu Weidong's arm and their pace slowed.

"I've prepared the tent, fishing rod, and camp stove today. Bring plenty of spare clothes." Lu Weidong looked down at her.

"Huh? Why?" Ye Wenxi looked up.

"The stream over there is very calm and cool. We wash up there every time we go on training exercises in the summer," Lu Weidong said, taking Ye Wenxi's hand.

"Why didn't you say so earlier? If you had, I would have prepared a swimsuit. The service center definitely doesn't sell them." Ye Wenxi wrinkled her nose.

"It's okay, just wear a tank top." Lu Weidong's lips curved into a smile.

"It's too transparent; you can see right through it once it gets wet." Ye Wenxi gently tapped Lu Weidong's hand.

"It's just the two of us, are you afraid I'll see?" Lu Weidong turned his head to look at her, his eyes gleaming with a hint of mischief.

"Are you sure there won't be anyone else?" Ye Wenxi looked up at him, her eyelashes fluttering twice.

"I'll take you to a deserted place. It's not a training day, so there will hardly be anyone around. That place is upstream, and the training teams won't pass through it." Lu Weidong rubbed his thumb against the back of her hand.

"What if? What if someone sees us?" Ye Wenxi bit her lip.

"What do you see? Hmm?" Lu Weidong lowered his head, leaned close to her, and his nose almost touched her forehead.

"Seeing the two of us..." Ye Wenxi turned her face away, her ears turning bright red.

Lu Weidong looked at her bright red ear tips and couldn't help but chuckle.

Even before the "war" has begun, people are already on edge with tension.

He pulled her close around the waist, leaned down to whisper in her ear, and said, "Bring a battle robe."

"No way! It's not like I'm at home, I can't wear this outside." Ye Wenxi twisted her body and nudged his chest with her elbow.

"If I wore that thing, you'd have to carry me down the mountain," Ye Wenxi glared at him.

"Then we'll just carry it," he added.

"Hey! I'm not going with you!" Ye Wenxi punched him lightly on the shoulder.

"I was just teasing you." He turned his head to look at her.

"You're not like that at all. I can tell. You're just up to no good." Ye Wenxi glared at him.

"Nothing's wrong," Lu Weidong leaned close to her ear, his voice so low that only she could hear, "You'll know whether you feel pent up or not when you get home."

"Lu Weidong!!"

Ye Wenxi reached out to hit him, but Lu Weidong smiled and dodged, then reached out and pulled her back.

The streetlights in the distance lit up one by one, and the two people walked and stopped, their voices sometimes near and sometimes far.

Lu Weidong whispered something in her ear again, and Ye Wenxi exclaimed "Ah—", stomped her foot, pushed him away, and her face turned bright red.

"You...you! If you've got the guts, don't come home!"

"Trying to scare me?" Lu Weidong smirked, then turned and ran. "Go home and see who's good for them in our family."

"Ugh!! I'm so angry!!" Ye Wenxi chased after him, her slippers making a clattering sound.

Lu Weidong ran a couple of steps and then slowed down, letting her catch up. Just as she reached out to hit him, he darted forward again.

Lu Weidong chuckled as Ye Wenxi chased after him.

"Stop right there!"

"I won't stand."