Cheng wanted to look innocent: "They share the same odor and want to get together. What does it have to do with me?"
Jiang Yi looked at her helplessly: "You, you have been thinking about it all the time since you were a child. Your family protected you when you were a child. Now I see that Zhou Tianlei also wants to pamper you to the sky and let you do whatever you want."
Cheng Xiang had an expression on his face.
Thinking of his grandpa's birthday, Cheng Xiang sincerely asked Jiang Yi for advice, what birthday gift should he give?
Jiang Yi raised his lips and smiled: "Of course when giving a gift, it should be delivered to the heart of the recipient."
Cheng Xiang still had a puzzled look on his face: "Can you please stop being so mysterious? You don't know what to give, right?" Cheng Xiang used a provocation.
Jiang Yi glanced at her and said slowly: "Grandpa, in his life, he went to the battlefield when he was young, fought in the north and south, made great military exploits, gained fame, wealth and power, and finally returned home with a beautiful woman in his arms. It can be considered a perfect life, but He also has regrets."
Jiang Yi took a sip of tea slowly, ignoring Cheng Xiang's eager eyes.
"Oh, my brother, you tell me, what's the regret?" Cheng Xiang looked at him slowly drinking sip after sip, wishing he could pick up the tea and pour it directly into his stomach.
"By the way, grandma said you made wolfberry wine. Bring me a jar later." Jiang Yi deliberately teased her.
Cheng Xiang's face darkened: "Are you weak? What kind of wolfberry wine should you drink? Do you want to strengthen yang or nourish yin? You don't even have a girlfriend, so you are not afraid of getting angry after drinking it?"
Jiang Yi looked at her with a look of disgust: "...You're married, are you talking like this?"
Cheng Xiang rolled his eyes at him and said, "Don't tell me, don't tell me. I'm going to see you off."
Jiang Yi smiled and said: "Okay, okay, let me tell you that on the Korean battlefield in 1952, the troops led by my grandfather were bombarded. My grandfather was buried and seriously injured. His guards dug him out and carried him on their backs. He broke through, and in order to protect him, the guards hid him in a cave and lured the enemy away.
Later, my grandfather was rescued. After many inquiries, he learned that the guard was seriously injured after he diverted the enemy away. However, he was rescued by reinforcements and transferred to other hospitals.
After the war, my grandfather returned to China and kept asking about the whereabouts of the guard. However, due to imperfect file management at the time, many soldiers' information was not detailed and could not be found. Later, during the social turmoil in those years, my grandfather was also involved. Too busy to take care of himself, this matter has been delayed, so grandpa's regret is to look for his old friend and find this guard. "
Cheng Xiang said thoughtfully after listening: "Grandpa is very affectionate and righteous. He has been worried about a guard for so many years."
Jiang Yi glanced at her and said, "This guard has been following my grandpa during the Anti-Japanese War. Grandpa originally promised to marry him and make a family in the future. Later, when the Korean War started, the guard found a partner and they were going to get married. , and there are opportunities for promotion if you stay in the country, but because you don’t trust your grandfather, you follow him to North Korea.”
Jiang Yi paused and said seriously: "You have never been a soldier, so you don't understand the friendship between soldiers."
Cheng Xiang rolled his eyelids: "Didn't you also serve as a soldier? Besides, there is also a retired soldier in my family."
Jiang Yi: "……."
"So, what is your birthday gift?" I talked for a long time without getting to the point.
"As for me, when I was abroad, I asked my friends to ask around, and I got some clues. When I came back, I made a trip myself, and I actually found this guard." Jiang Yi looked proud. said.
"Really? Okay, you plan to bring grandpa here when he celebrates his birthday?"
"Yes, forget grandpa's wish."
Cheng Xiang nodded: "This is a good gift."
But then I thought: "Hey, this is your gift. What should I do? What should I give you? Please help me think about it."
Cheng Xiang looked at Jiang Yi with longing eyes, rubbed his hands in prayer.
Jiang Yi glanced at her: "I'm sorry that grandpa loves you so much. He wants me to help you think about a gift. I don't care about you. Don't you have an almighty husband? Let him help you think about it."
He raised his hand to look at the time on his watch, stood up, stretched and said, "It's getting late, I should go home, Qing'er, uncle is leaving."
Qing'er ran over, raised her little face and asked, "Why are you leaving so quickly? You only talked to your mother, and you haven't talked to me yet."
Seeing that her mother had been talking to her uncle, she didn't dare to disturb her, so she kept drawing aside, hoping to wait for her mother to finish talking before talking to her uncle.
But he was about to leave, and Qing'er looked at Jiang Yi unhappily.
She liked this uncle so much. He was tall and good-looking. When he talked to her, his eyes were crooked. He was not like her father who was always silent, nor like her brother-in-law who was always mean to her, nor like her brother. So annoying.
"Uncle is back home. He still has something to do. Let's chat with Qing'er next time, okay? Next time we take Qing'er to the city, how about we go ride the merry-go-round?" Jiang Yi coaxed Qing'er.
Qing'er then started to laugh, raised her two little pear dimples, stretched out her little finger and said, "Let's pull the hook, and we must keep our word."
"Okay." Jiang Yi smiled and hooked up with Qing'er.
Cheng Xiang looked at the warm scene between the two and suddenly felt that he was a little redundant, alas! She is no longer the person whom her brother loves the most, nor is she the person who Qing'er loves the most.
Qing'er reluctantly sent Jiang Yi away, turned around and said to her mother, "Mom, I have begun to miss my uncle."
Cheng thought: "……."
The stinky Jiang Yi was eating and drinking here, and he was trying to steal his daughter's heart, but he didn't even offer any advice.
Cheng Xiang is a little troubled now. Compared with Jiang Yi's gifts, he seems to be a bit unable to give anything.
In the evening, Cheng Xiang was feeling sleepy all the time, and the food was not delicious.
Zhou Tianxing hurriedly took a few bites of food and then went back to the room.
Cheng Xiang asked Zhou Yang strangely: "What has your uncle been busy with these two days? Why do you always see him in a panic?"
Zhou Yang said while eating the rice: "He is preparing a birthday gift."
Cheng Xiang's eyes widened: "Whose birthday gift is this for?"
Zhou Yang: "Give it to my great-grandpa, isn't it about his birthday?"
Cheng Xiang's eyes were about to fall off, this kid was actually moving faster than him.
"What has he prepared?" Cheng Xiang asked Zhou Yang.
Zhou Yang rolled his eyes and thought for a moment and said, "It seems to be a wood carving. He carves it with a carving knife all day long. I still haven't figured out what it is carving."
Next to him, Qing'er also said leisurely: "I'm ready too."
Cheng Xiang turned around: "Huh? What have you prepared?"
Qing'er slowly chewed a mouthful of rice, and her showy manner was exactly the same as Jiang Yi's.
I glanced at my mother's eager eyes and said, "I want to play a piece of music for my great-grandpa."
Cheng thought: "Oh, that's good."
Cheng Xiang lowered his shoulders in frustration. He was better than himself, right?
Zhou Tianlei returned to the room in the evening and saw Cheng Xiangzheng leaning on the bed with his head in a daze.
"Still thinking about gifts?" Zhou Tianlei went to bed and sat next to her and asked.
Cheng Xiang nodded, "Forget it Jiang Yi, Tianxing and Qing'er are both ahead of me. I failed miserably."
Zhou Tianlei smiled: "Tell me, what did they give you?"
Cheng Xiang turned around and looked at Zhou Tianlei, and talked about their gifts seriously, of course focusing on Jiang Yi's gift.
Zhou Tianlei nodded silently after hearing this: "There is nothing more joyful than the reunion of comrades."
Yes, Cheng Xiang nodded: "Zhou Tianlei, I don't want to lose."
Damn the desire to win.
Zhou Tianlei rubbed her hair and smiled, thought for a while and said: "This is easy to handle. I remember going to my grandpa's house before and saw a photo of him and his comrades. I remember that behind the photo, my grandpa marked his name and address. They seem to have always been in contact, but it seems like they haven’t seen each other for a long time. We can find them all and get them together on grandpa’s birthday.”
Cheng Xiang's eyes lit up: "Okay, Jiang Yi will find one, let's find a team, and I will win." Then he frowned and said, "Is it easy to handle? We are all over the world."
Zhou Tianlei pondered for a while and said: "It should be easy to handle. I also have some comrades in various places. Let them help me find him. There is still some time before grandpa's birthday, so I can make it in time."
Cheng Xiang happily knelt down on the bed and hugged Zhou Tianlei's arm: "I knew you had a way."
Then he kissed Zhou Tianlei on the face.
Zhou Tianlei's eyes changed instantly.
Cheng Xiang took a look and realized that he was causing trouble. He quickly stuck out his tongue and retreated into the quilt.
Zhou Tianlei had already come over, leaned over to look at her, and whispered: "Are you satisfied with my idea?"
Cheng Xiang grabbed the quilt and nodded.
"Then, should we reward her?" Zhou Tianlei reached out to pull her quilt.
Cheng Xiang held on tightly and said softly: "I just kissed you."
Zhou Tianlei lowered his head and whispered in her ear: "It's not enough, it's been eleven days, think about it."
Cheng Xiang said dumbfounded: "Aren't you very busy? What are you thinking about every day?"
"Miss you."
As soon as the words fell, the kiss followed.
Stars and stars, endless.
…
Cheng wanted to go to the city and secretly wrote down the information about his comrades behind the photo of his grandfather.
When grandma found out what she was planning to do, she provided a lot of useful information.
There were five of them in total, and they all joined the army at the same time. Grandma also took out a photo and said that it was taken by a war reporter when they first joined the army. The photo that grandpa showed to Zhou Tianlei was from the time they met in Chongqing during the Anti-Japanese War. , sighed that all five of them were still alive, and took another photo together.
It would be of great significance if we could reunite this time.
After saying this, Cheng Xianghe felt excited and felt that he was one step ahead of Jiang Yi.
Before leaving, he saw Jiang Yi and snorted at him with his nose raised.
Jiang Yi looked at her inexplicably: "Ghost girl, are you holding something back?"
After Zhou Tianlei got the information, he started to deal with it.
The breadth of his connections was beyond Cheng Xiang's surprise.
A few days later, replies came from all over the place, and the five people's itinerary was basically implemented.
However, every time someone is implemented, Zhou Tianlei will come to ask for rewards.
But the frequency is really regular, once every two days.
After Cheng Xiang came to his senses later, he asked Zhou Tianlei: "Did you do it on purpose? These people were actually found early in the morning, and you deliberately told me one after another every two days?"
Zhou Tianlei snickered without saying a word and directly pulled her under him.
In order to prepare this gift for grandpa, Cheng Xiang really paid a huge price.
I've been feeling dizzy these past few days, yawning all the time, and looking like I can't wake up.
Chen Jiao came to find her that day and told her that the vegetables in the greenhouse were growing very well.
The water has been poured and the fertilizer has been applied. Now we are very busy.
She came here to give Cheng some knitting patterns. It was getting cold, so she wanted to take advantage of her free time to knit a sweater for Chen Tian.
Cheng Xiang gave her a knitting book.
The two of them sat in the yard and picked out tricks together.
Chen Jiao picked two patterns and asked Cheng Xiang to teach her how to weave.
"Knit two more for him?" Cheng Xiang asked casually.
"Knit one for Zhang Qingxiang, too." Chen Jiao said casually while imitating Cheng Xiang's movements.
Cheng Xiang was stunned, stopped what he was doing, and looked at her steadily.
Chen Jiao raised her head and looked into Cheng Xiang's eyes, bit her lip and said, "What's wrong?"
"You two?" Cheng Xiang hesitated.
Chen Jiao's eyes flashed and she said, "I just saw that the sweater he was wearing had holes in it, and I wanted to knit one for Xiaotian anyway, so I knitted one for him."
Cheng thought: "Oh, yes, by the way." I'm afraid Chen Tiancai is the one who was taken by the way.
"Really" Chen Jiao explained with a helpless smile.
"Yeah." Cheng Xiang nodded.
In Cheng Xiang's eyes, Zhang Qingxiang was a reliable man in other aspects except for his occasional confusion about Cheng Ningning's affairs.
Not to mention his help to Chen Jiao these days, Chen Jiao can hardly do without him now.
It would be great if these two people could come together.
The afternoon sun was neither hot nor dry, and it felt warm on my body.
Cheng Xiang taught Chen Jiao how to knit a sweater over and over again while yawning constantly.
Chen Jiao looked at her tearful look and asked, "Why are you so sleepy? Did you not sleep at night?"
Cheng Xiang thought about his hard work these past few nights, and smiled with a blush on his face.
Chen Jiao turned her head and saw the red suck marks on Cheng Xiang's neck, and understood something in her heart.
He scolded softly: "Brother Tianlei, it's true, you should be more restrained."
Cheng Xiang nodded aggrievedly and smiled shyly.
Chen Jiao looked at her sleepy look and said, "You go take a nap. There's no need to teach me. I have nothing to do this afternoon. I'll help you look after Qing'er. When Tianxing and Xiao Yang come back, I'll give them Cook, go and sleep.”
Cheng Xiang really felt weak now. He could hardly open his eyes and his body was very sore.
Then he answered Chen Jiao, returned to the room, threw himself on the bed, and fell asleep.
When I woke up again, it was dark.
Just as he was about to get up, Zhou Tianlei came in.
He asked softly: "Are you awake? Do you want to eat something?"
Cheng thought: "Are you already off work? Have I slept for so long? Have the children eaten?"
Zhou Tianlei helped her tidy up the broken hair around her ears and said, "I've eaten everything. Chen Jiao helped cook the food."
"Where is she?"
"gone."
When Zhou Tianlei first returned home, he saw Chen Jiao cooking and asked in confusion: "Where is Cheng Xiang?"
Chen Jiao looked at him with an expression on her face as if you were embarrassed to ask.
"Sleep, she's too tired." Chen Jiao's tone was full of blame.
Zhou Tianlei walked to the door of the room, opened it gently, and saw Cheng Xiang sleeping soundly, and understood what Chen Jiao meant.
He still remembered that when Chen Jiao left, she looked at him deeply and sighed softly.
It seems that my wife has been really exhausted these past few days.
Zhou Tianlei looked at her pityingly: "Would you like to sleep a little longer?"
Cheng Xiang shook his head and took a rest, feeling much better now.
Zhou Tianlei added: "Grandpa's comrades will arrive one after another tomorrow. I asked Xiao He to arrange accommodation and pick them up the day after tomorrow to celebrate Grandpa's birthday."
Cheng Xiang nodded: "Okay, I always feel at ease when you do things."
