She Only Cares About Cultivation-Chapter 842 - 787: Famine Era 28 (Second Update)

One month later, Tong Zhan came to find her.

"The house has been painted, some simple furniture and cooking utensils have been made, the bedding is all military-issued, anyway the army has them, you can just go pick them up, and later it will be deducted from my salary. Do you want to go have a look? By the way, we still need to get a certificate, all the procedures have been completed."

Actually, getting married in this era was very simple, the four major items popular in the sixties and seventies weren’t there in this era. And she was not a picky person about these things; destitution in the broader environment was unavoidable. However, the house definitely needed a look; after looking, she would pick out any flaws, let him make amendments, and then decide the date.

Because it happened to be the weekend, Tong Zhan took her on the bus to a town in the suburbs, from where they took the supply truck back to the army. After a half-day’s hustle, they arrived at the forces hidden in the mountain gully by noon.

Her arrival made Tong Zhan’s comrades very excited. Although she herself was definitely not as stunning as they imagined, at least the diploma was impressive.

Moreover, she was very fair-skinned and young, which made her advantageous.

Entering the army felt like being in a wolf’s den; everyone looked at her with a faintly creepy aunt-like smile.

Maybe subconsciously she was used to such scenes (Long Gangshi Special Forces background), so she carried herself quite gracefully.

The inner tension eased amid everyone’s hearty laughter.

At noon, they invited her to the canteen for lunch, calling her sister-in-law this and sister-in-law that, which made her feel embarrassed.

For lunch, there was Big Pot Dish; everyone served a bowl, and picked a few mixed grain buns. The dish contained tofu noodles, cabbage, radish, and scattered minced meat. One could see it was their best meal, as she held the enamel bowl, sitting among the soldiers, looking at the occasionally admiring glances cast her way, feeling a pang of bitterness inside. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

It seemed that from ancient times, soldiers found it hard to find wives, especially now that the national situation had just stabilized. Those with lower levels definitely couldn’t seek it, since the top Eldest, Second, Third hadn’t married yet, how could it be their turn?

Her down-to-earthness, jovial attitude, and groundedness probably increased everyone’s goodwill greatly, so during lunch, the cook specially gave her a lot of tofu and noodles, continuously saying, "Sister-in-law, eat more."

But currently their brigade family had only just arrived one or two families, everything hadn’t been properly arranged yet, eating at the sister-in-law’s house was not feasible, naturally they were all entertained at the canteen.

After lunch, the Political Commissar and Tong Zhan led her towards the family housing area. At a glance, there were only a row of adobe houses, quite aged and identical, only ten households in total, each with a yard. Inside was a large room with a small room, the bedroom inside, the hall outside. In the yard’s east side was a kitchen, in the corner by the door a toilet, no backyard, but the yard was quite large, could grow plenty of vegetables.

Everything was clean and tidy; apart from poor conditions, there were no other adjectives to describe it.

The so-called painted walls were actually just the bedroom painted once over, because Beijing winters are cold, so they had a heated kang instead of a bed. On the kang, there was a place to put a cooking stove; in winter, they could cook indoors thus saving firewood, since behind their house was a mountain, so burning the kang was feasible.

Inside the bedroom, there was a wooden cabinet, looked newly made, painted with red lacquer, with no smell visible of being done a while back.

Besides the cabinet, a desk, washbasin stand, and clothes rack were placed, apart from that, there was nothing else; the windows were still that wooden type, paper-pasted.

In the hall, it was even simpler, just a newly made dining table, stools, a square table with long benches, squeezing seven or eight people at most.

In the kitchen, they bought an iron pot, bowls, plates, knives, chopping board, all appearing new, unused.

The stove was the earthen type, with firewood stacked behind, a very simple and dirty kitchen.

Because of burning wood, smoke and fire had left unforgettable black marks (from previous occupants).

How could one place chopping boards and bowls here, although fortunately he hadn’t yet started the fire, just placed them there for now.

Yet, such a dilapidated place actually had electricity, using electric lights, seemingly benefiting from the military.

In general, she was not satisfied with this place, but it was evident that this was the best they could do.