Chapter 696: 694, Wu Tong

The incident immediately caused a huge commotion in the military region, and all the military wives who participated in spreading rumors were strictly ordered to take quality classes at the military region. In addition, they had to join the soldiers in military training for a week. This made the military wives groan in distress!

After this lesson, the military spouses’ residence became much quieter. For a long time, it was rare to see clusters of military wives gathering to chat.

Wu Yuan stretched her neck, standing by the platform looking around, but the train was nowhere in sight. She checked her watch, "Why hasn’t the train arrived yet?" She had specially checked the train schedule, which stated that this train would arrive at about 2:45 PM. It was already that time, but she couldn’t even see a shadow of the train. Could something have happened?

Just as she was worrying, a "woo woo!" sound of the train horn came from afar.

Wu Yuan immediately breathed a sigh of relief and a smile appeared on her face. Soon, she saw the train approaching and then it slowly stopped at the platform.

"Xiao Zhang, we’re going to carriage number four," Wu Yuan said, looking at the train carriage numbers while walking beside the young soldier. Ting Yao had an important meeting today and couldn’t come with her to pick up her sister, so he assigned Xiao Zhang to drive her to the train station.

Carriage number four was toward the front. Before Wu Yuan even got to carriage number four, she saw a familiar figure.

"Tongtong!" Wu Yuan saw Wu Tong and hurried over with a smile. It had been more than a year since she last saw her sister, and she really missed her.

Wu Tong, hearing the call, turned around. Seeing Wu Yuan, a brilliant smile appeared on her face as she stepped quickly to meet her, "Big sister!" A colleague of hers had something to attend to next month and needed to take leave, so she was allowed to rest first, and will cover for that colleague next month at work. Since she had nothing to do during her days off, she took the opportunity to come and visit her big sister.

Wu Yuan looked at Wu Tong, who had grown even more beautiful, and her smile deepened. She took Wu Tong’s hand, "You’re getting more and more beautiful, Tongtong. Now tell your big sister, do you have someone special yet?"

"Big sister, why do you ask me such questions the moment you see me?" Wu Tong glanced at Xiao Zhang beside Wu Yuan and looked at her older sister with a blushing face. With outsiders around, how could she answer such a question?

"Oh! Feeling shy, are we? Okay! Big sister won’t ask; let’s go home first," Wu Yuan said with a chuckle, taking Wu Tong by the hand and walking to where the car was parked.

Xiao Zhang reached out to take the luggage from Wu Tong’s hand and followed behind the two women.

"Big sister, why isn’t brother-in-law here?" Wu Tong asked. It had been over a year since she last saw her big sister and nearly three or four years since she had seen her brother-in-law. She had almost forgotten what he looked like.

"Your brother-in-law has a meeting and couldn’t get away today," Wu Yuan replied with a smile. Seeing her sister after so long made her incredibly happy!

The two got into the car and drove to the military region.

After getting out of the car, Wu Yuan led Wu Tong in the direction of their home.

The way was very quiet with hardly anyone in sight. Those military wives who normally had nothing better to do than gossip had all been attending classes and undergoing training in the military region for the past few days.

Seeing these military wives dragging their weary bodies home every evening and looking morose as they headed to the military region each morning, she couldn’t help but want to laugh. It was their own fault for not heeding her advice and provoking Luo Shu and Lu Hanmo. They deserved it!

"Big sister, why is it so quiet here? I don’t see anyone around. Is it because it’s too cold, and nobody wants to go out?" Wu Tong asked Wu Yuan. The Northwest was indeed much colder, many times colder than her own city. When she felt the cold weather of the Northwest on the train, she really had the urge to turn around and go back.

"You’re new here, so of course, you’re not used to it. Once you’re inside the house, you won’t feel the cold," Wu Yuan said.

As they talked, they arrived at Wu Yuan’s front door.

Wu Yuan pushed open the courtyard door, leading Wu Tong into the yard.

"Those three little ones should be out of school by now." Hearing laughter and frolic from inside the house, Wu Yuan smiled.

Pushing open the door and entering the house, Wu Yuan looked at Xiao Zhang, who was holding the luggage, "Xiao Zhang, just put the luggage on the table, and then you can go on with your work."

"Yes!" Xiao Zhang responded, placed the luggage on the table, and then turned and walked out the door.

"Mom!" Hearing Wu Yuan’s voice, the three sitting on the couch watching TV turned their heads to look.

Seeing Wu Tong standing with Wu Yuan, the three were momentarily stunned.

"Auntie! You’re here!" Wu Yuan’s eldest daughter rushed over first. She had met Wu Tong a few times before, and naturally recognized her.

"Auntie!" The remaining two boys also ran over.

Wu Tong smiled in response, walked over to the table, opened her luggage, and took out the gifts she had brought for the three of them, handing one to each, "These are gifts from your auntie. Do you like them?"

"We love them! Thank you, Auntie!" The three thanked her in unison.

"I’m going to cook, you watch TV with them for a while." Wu Yuan said, heading toward the kitchen.

"Big sister, let me help you," Wu Tong followed and offered.

"No need for your help, I can manage on my own, and you must be tired from the long journey," Wu Yuan took Wu Tong by the arm, led her to the sofa, and made her sit down, "Sit here and watch TV. Are you still cold?"

"Not cold anymore." Wu Tong shook her head. The room was certainly much warmer.

Wu Yuan smiled, then turned to her three children, "You three, go pour some tea for your auntie and get some snacks."

"Okay!" They responded in unison and quickly scattered to perform their tasks. Whenever guests came over, they would also help entertain.

Wu Yuan entered the kitchen and got busy. Before picking up Wu Tong, she had already prepared and washed the vegetables. Now they just needed a quick rinse before cooking.

She opened the kitchen window to prevent grease and smoke from lingering in the house later on.

Wu Yuan picked up the pot, gave it a rinse, and began to cook.

After chatting with the three little ones for a while, Wu Tong stood up and walked into the kitchen, "Big sister!"

Wu Yuan was stir-frying, turned her head to look at Wu Tong, "Why did you come in? The window is open here; it’s quite cold. You should go back and sit in the living room." When she was younger, her siblings also enjoyed gathering around her when she cooked, talking to her. As soon as she finished cooking, they would be eager to try it. But in those days, there wasn’t much that was tasty—a plate of wild vegetables and a bowl of thin porridge were already considered good living conditions.

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