The man’s lips curled into a faint smile as he placed the lunchbox by the bedside and slowly approached Wen Ci, his voice deep and magnetic: “Darling, don’t be so embarrassed and angry.”
“Who’s embarrassed and angry?” Wen Ci retorted.
After saying that, she rolled her eyes at Huo Jingyuan.
Clearly, it was this insatiable man who lacked restraint, and now he was shifting the blame onto her. Absolutely unforgivable.
Huo Jingyuan sat by the bed, reached out, and took the ointment for the wound from Wen Ci’s hand. Suppressing his inner joy, he spoke calmly: “Be good, let me help you apply it again.”
Wen Ci: “!!!”
Her face visibly flushed red.
“Who needs you to help apply it again?”
Huo Jingyuan remained unhurried and unperturbed: “Can you finish applying it yourself?”
“Why wouldn’t I be able to?”
In the man’s eyes, Wen Ci’s retort resembled that of a flustered little animal, utterly adorable.
“Be obedient.”
After a while, Wen Ci was ‘forcibly’ subjected to the man’s application of the ointment. The rough touch of his fingertips made her feel extremely ticklish.
“Can you hurry up?”
Wen Ci’s gaze was fixed on the ceiling, not daring to look down at Huo Jingyuan. Her stomach also chose this inopportune moment to loudly protest.
“I’ll go wash my hands.”
Huo Jingyuan’s gentle voice sounded.
The rippling waters in Wen Ci’s heart gradually calmed.
Finally, it was over.
Today, the wind was blowing outside. When Wen Ci got up, she put on a thick coat. She also went to the kitchen to wash her hands and sighed: “I wonder if my salary is enough to cover the leave…”
Personal leave usually requires using one’s own salary to find a replacement.
Huo Jingyuan said while scooping rice into the bowls: “I took marriage leave, not personal leave. It won’t deduct from your salary.”
“What?” Wen Ci blinked her clear, moist eyes, trembling slightly in disbelief, “Didn’t I start the job after we got married?”
“Yes.”
“Even that qualifies for marriage leave?!”
Wen Ci’s voice carried a hint of excitement.
Huo Jingyuan opened the lunchbox. One box contained stir-fried rapeseed, and the other had tofu with meat: “The benefits in the northwest are good. Family members who just got married and joined the army are entitled to seven days of marriage leave if they start working at a hospital or school.”
This is a convenience provided to newlywed couples.
It’s a precaution for those young newlyweds who might not know how to restrain themselves.
Wen Ci smacked her lips, looking at the delicious food. She picked up her chopsticks and tasted the rapeseed. Due to the geographical location of the northwest, vegetables are extremely scarce.
“Sister Jing’s cooking is as delicious as ever.”
Huo Jingyuan looked at his wife with a resentful gaze, who seemed as satisfied as if she had tasted some rare delicacy, “Is the food I cooked not good?”
“Uh…” Wen Ci was embarrassed.
Huo Jingyuan’s cooking skills were also good, but they were incomparable to Sister Jing’s.
But seeing the man’s resentful look, she smiled and looked at Huo Jingyuan with a flattering expression: “It’s delicious, Regimental Commander Huo’s attention to detail is also top-notch!”
After the compliment, Wen Ci felt relieved.
A few days later.
Although the northwestern military region was in a semi-closed state, military vehicles brought back many things every day to build a stage.
Wen Ci and Yu Qing were also practicing the water sleeve dance intensively.
The two had great tacit understanding and even borrowed drums from the cultural troupe of the northwestern military region. They used their sleeves to hit the drum surface during practice.
Wen Ci, wearing her nurse uniform, accompanied Yu Qing on her rounds in the hospital and happened to hear a few injured soldiers lamenting:
“If only I had held back a bit during training, I wouldn’t have twisted my ankle while climbing the wall. Now I can’t participate in the Hell’s Week, my 28-inch bicycle…”
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