Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 1476: Movie Date 1

Chapter 1476: Chapter 1476: Movie Date 1

In the years following the troops, Feng Qingxue, of course, took the elderly and children to see movies and cultural performances. Almost every military compound had its own cinema and auditorium, but for the couple to watch a movie alone? That had never happened.

Listening to Lu Jiang, he still harbored lingering feelings about the time they wanted to watch a movie while out shopping together but hadn’t managed to see one.

In the blink of an eye, over a decade had passed.

After lunch, as the children were always reluctant to take a nap, Lu Jiang and Feng Qingxue sneakily slipped away.

Wang Cuilan, wearing presbyopic glasses, was busy mending clothes for Lu Erxiong, and didn’t notice.

Lu Jiang’s father saw them, but he didn’t say a word. He simply turned Lu Erxiong’s face towards himself, away from the door, so he wouldn’t see his parents’ disappearing figures. Seeing his son and daughter-in-law getting along so well pleased him to no end. One was busy with work, and the other with taking care of the family; after more than ten years, they had spent more time on the road than together. It was about time they had an opportunity to be alone.

Lu Jiang and Feng Qingxue, like two mischievous children, braved the wind and snow to enter the cinema and had just found their seats when Feng Qingxue pulled out a can of sunflower seeds and shell-on five-spice peanuts from beneath her coat.

Caramel sunflower seeds, her favorite. It was a pity that they couldn’t have the sweet popcorn they sold nowadays.

Lu Jiang liked peanuts, and it was probably a favorite among most men. The sounds of cracking peanuts and shelling seeds echoed back and forth. Before the movie even started, a six or seven-year-old Little Fatty sitting in the row ahead, who had come with his parents, kept swallowing noisily, the sound quite loud, as he twisted his head back to look at the containers in Feng Qingxue and Lu Jiang’s hands.

This ’Little Fatty’ actually wasn’t nearly as chubby as the Lu Family kids; he just wasn’t skinny, hardly qualifying as a fatty.

Seeing Little Fatty’s mother pat him, Feng Qingxue smiled slightly and reached out a generous handful of sunflower seeds to him, "Little comrade, eat slowly, don’t choke, and I’ll give you more once you’re done."

"Thank you, big sister!" Little Fatty sweetly expressed his thanks, cupping his hands which were too small to hold it all, so he used the front of his clothes instead.

Little Fatty’s mother, seeing the genuine large handful, said awkwardly, "Young lady, this child is always craving snacks, acting like he hasn’t had anything good in a million years. You must find it funny."

She sneakily pinched her son’s bottom as a form of punishment, but with his thick clothes, it hardly had any effect.

"No worries, no worries, we should help each other!" Feng Qingxue then reminded, "By the way, young lady, I’m already thirty this year, so I should be calling you ’young lady’."

The woman in front of her appeared to be only twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, but her actual age might be a year or two younger than that.

"Ah?" The young woman gaped in astonishment, unable to stop staring at Feng Qingxue; with such delicate skin, beautiful features, and a youthful appearance, she looked prettier than the actresses in movies, easily mistaken for an eighteen or nineteen-year-old. Initially, she thought Feng Qingxue was the daughter of the stern-faced officer sitting next to her. How could she suddenly claim to be thirty?

If one could look this good at thirty, she’d wish to turn thirty instantly too. Just as she was about to ask for more details, the lights in the cinema suddenly went out and the movie began, instantly quieting the noisy crowd.

Feng Qingxue thought they would be watching old movies like "Five Heroes of Lang Ya Mountain", "Forest and Snowy Plains", or "Landmine Warfare"; unexpectedly, it was a new movie. The film’s title wasn’t clear to her; it seemed to be Shanzha, but then she stopped eating her sunflower seeds in surprise, because in this new movie she saw the youthful and lively face of her younger sister.