webnovelfull Chapter 636: Glorious Military Family
Chapter 636: Glorious Military Family
After leaving the store, Liu Jingxue scanned with her spiritual sense and found nothing new or interesting, so she gave up the idea of continuing shopping.
Using her spiritual sense, she found a few aunties and aunties carrying vegetable baskets. After scanning the vegetables in their baskets, Liu Jingxue found a secluded place and put the large bamboo baskets into the space.
He got some vegetables from the space vegetable garden and put them into a small bamboo basket, then picked up the basket and walked towards the military hospital.
When they were almost at the entrance of the military hospital, Liu Jingxue thought for a moment and took a two-pound piece of pork from the space warehouse and put it into the bamboo basket.
Although he brought a lot of cured fish and cured meat, Liu Jianjun, as a patient, was not suitable for eating such pickled products.
Although there were a lot of live poultry, the time at noon was short and it would take too long to slaughter them and stew them into soup.
Although the processing speed in the space is very fast, and there are magic tools such as pressure cookers and electric pressure cookers in the space, the time is too short and it is difficult to explain it myself.
Liu Jianjun was in need of nutritional supplements. He couldn't just eat meat with Xiao Ma at noon and let him just watch.
As for the source of the meat, it is easy to explain.
He said that he met a kind-hearted lady and told her that he came here to look after the injured soldiers, but that he didn't have the meat ticket here, so he used his money to exchange for one from her.
People of this generation respect soldiers very much. When they know that injured soldiers need nutritional supplements, many people are willing to help.
I think no one can find fault with this excuse.
Xiao Ma had just come back from emptying the urine bag. He was very surprised to see Liu Jingxue coming back so soon.
"Comrade Liu, you bought the vegetables so quickly?"
Liu Jingxue smiled and replied, "Someone led me there, so I didn't have to run around like a headless fly, so it was much faster."
The lady in the bed next to me was surprised, "Didn't you just come yesterday? How come you already know the person who took you shopping for groceries so quickly?"
Liu Jingxue shook her head and said, "I don't know him.
As soon as I left the military hospital, I happened to meet a few ladies carrying vegetable baskets. I thought they must be going to buy vegetables. With them leading the way, I wouldn't have to look for a place everywhere.
I went up to them and talked to them. They had just come out of the military hospital and knew that I was there to take care of the injured soldiers, so they immediately and warmly invited me to go with them.
Thinking that I didn’t have a basket, they took me to buy a bamboo basket so that I wouldn’t have to buy vegetables and not be able to bring them back.”
Liu Jingxue raised the bamboo basket in her hand as she spoke.
"By the way, they knew I didn't have a meat ticket, so they gave me one in exchange, allowing me to buy fresh meat."
Liu Jingxue said, revealing the meat hidden by the vegetables. "We didn't have time to kill those animals at noon. This meat is just right for cooking and supplementing the nutrition for my second brother."
The old lady exclaimed, “You met a good person when you went out.
These days, a family in the city only has a few meat coupons. If she gives them to you, her family will have nothing to eat."
“I am also grateful to my second brother.
If it wasn't for the injured soldiers, they wouldn't have saved the meat in their mouths for me.
I will see if I can run into that person again when I go grocery shopping tomorrow and give her some of the bacon I brought.
If my second brother couldn't eat pickled meat right now, I wouldn't have taken advantage of him."
The old lady nodded in agreement and said, "You are right. Although the common people are sometimes stingy and fussy, they are really nice to the soldiers.
Originally, we were busy with the autumn harvest, and it was impossible for the team cadres to agree to the members' requests for leave.
But when he heard that my family wanted to send someone to look after the injured soldiers, he agreed without even saying a word, and told me to stay there and feel free to stay as long as I wanted.
As an old woman from the countryside, I was scared to travel far away alone, for fear of taking the wrong road or getting on the wrong bus.
But along the way, the people I met were so kind, knowing that I was there to take care of my injured soldier son.
The people at the train station saw me off to the train and told the crew on the train to take good care of me.
When I changed buses halfway, someone took me down and handed me over to other people, who helped me buy tickets and then put me back on the bus.
The passengers on the train also looked after me everywhere and didn't let others bully me, an illiterate old lady.
Some people even brought me food.
If it weren’t for these kind people, I wouldn’t be here.”
The old lady sighed, "These people are all strangers. I have received such a great favor from them. I don't know if I will have the chance to see them again in the future. I have to repay this favor."
After hearing what the old lady said, Liu Jingxue felt that people of that era were much simpler than those in later generations.
"Auntie, they helped you without expecting anything in return.
Who made you have a good son? This is the glory your son has earned for you.
Isn't it said that a glorious military family is a great honor? With a son like this, you will be proud when you go out."
"Hahahaha," the old lady laughed.
"Little girl, you are right. I am proud to have a son who is a soldier."
"Let me tell you, my aunt had a mortal enemy in the village. Our maiden families were from the same village, but who would have thought that we would marry into the same village later.
When we were girls, we didn't get along. We always competed with each other in everything. Now that we're married and married into the same village, we're competing again."
"Alas," the aunt sighed, "but my luck has always been worse than hers. My family conditions are not as good as hers, and the people I married are not as good as hers either. I am always outshined by her.
But since my son joined the army and her son was rejected, the situation has changed.
I finally straightened my back in front of her, and she no longer dared to show off in front of me.
Whenever she starts to show off, I bring up the fact that her son was rejected, and she immediately loses her composure.
When they get upset with me, they go home and take it out on their own sons, daughters, and grandchildren."
"Ever since my boy joined the army, her family's life has not been as good as mine.
In the past, those people in the village always stepped on me and praised her, but now the situation is reversed, they all step on her and praise me.
This is all the glory that my old son has brought me.”
The old lady's son was lying on the hospital bed, feeling a little amused and helpless. He had heard his mother say this countless times.
"Mom, please don't tell everyone.
Also, don’t make trouble with Aunt Chun at home. If you make trouble at home, it will reflect badly on me.”
The old lady waved her hand and said, "Don't worry, your village chief uncle has already told your father, and your father has also warned me, I won't cause any trouble for you.
Now I don't even bother with her. Even when she comes to provoke me, I just ignore her.
Now your mother has a lot of helpers in the team. If she dares to provoke me, I don’t need to intervene, the others will deal with her.”
"But, son, you have to behave well in the army and don't make mistakes that will cause the army to send you back.
If you go back and don't join the army, I will be dominated by her again.
Our family is also inferior to hers.
Besides, when mom goes out in the future, there won’t be so many people to help her.”
The little soldier smiled bitterly when he heard this. He didn't know whether he should be happy or angry.
He originally thought that this serious injury would scare his mother into letting him retire from the army immediately.
Unexpectedly, his mother not only did not urge him to retire, but instead asked him to find a way to stay in the army.
The reason for not letting him retire was actually that he didn't want to be suppressed by his old rivals again and didn't want to be looked down upon when he went out in the future.
Where did her motherly love go?
He wanted to ask his mother if she was worried about him staying in the army and getting fatally injured someday and not being able to be saved.
But fearing that he would scare his mother, he swallowed the words back.
Forget it, as long as mother is willing to let him stay in the army, why does he care about her reasons?