Chapter 304: Chapter 302: Who Suffers Sleeplessness Tonight

At night, after the children had gone to bed, Ling Chengyan washed up and entered the bedroom.

Wang Liansheng poured out the dirty water, tidied up a bit, and followed her in.

When Ling Chengyan mentioned the job transfer to Wang Liansheng, he voted in favor almost without hesitation: “Go, you have to go!”

Ling Chengyan sat at the bedside, looking at the man by the bed, and asked, “If I go, your transfer might still take some time, and at home…”

Wang Liansheng just chuckled, looking at Ling Chengyan without saying a word, while Ling Chengyan suddenly felt a bit flushed.

Ever since Wang Liansheng returned, Ling Chengyan first served in the Automobile Company, being away for most of the month, and then joined the Special Service Company, where she would be out for a month at a time for training. Not to mention this time on the front line, she’d be gone for more than half a year… She left the house and the children all to Wang Liansheng.

She never managed the household much anyway.

Looking at her, Wang Liansheng knew what her silence meant, perhaps an agreement?

Wang Liansheng got into the bed, naturally took Ling Chengyan’s hand, and said softly, “Don’t worry about home, I’ll take good care of it. As the song goes, the military merit medal belongs half to you, half to me, hehe.”

Looking at his affectionate gaze, Ling Chengyan felt inexplicably warm and suddenly let out a laugh.

She withdrew her hand, turned her head, pulled the covers over, and lay down, mumbling, “Alright, I know. Let’s sleep.”

Wang Liansheng’s empty hand slowly curled up and then relaxed. Resigned, he also lay down: “Yeah, sleep early, we have to move back home tomorrow.”

With her back to him, Ling Chengyan smiled silently, softly replied, and then closed her eyes, trying to fall asleep.

She had battled on the frontlines, been through fire and smoke, her mind and nerves long trained to be incredibly strong. No matter the time or place, whether lying in grass, dense forests, gravel, or by streams, she could rest whenever and wherever, even if just for a few minutes, she could take a nap to recover her strength.

That night, lying on a comfortable big bed, wrapped in warm covers, with no fire or danger, she found herself unusually insomniac.

After self-hypnotizing for a long time, she still couldn’t fall asleep; afraid to move, her body felt stiff…

Finally unable to hold on, she moved her hands and feet, preparing to turn over when suddenly a light chuckle came from behind.

“Sleep!” Wang Liansheng turned her over, tucked the covers around her, and put his arm over her, pulling her into his embrace, his words incredibly comforting.

Suddenly, Ling Chengyan’s anxious and restless heart found a place to land, settling down instantly.

She softly replied, moved her head slightly, like a cat rubbing against the man’s shoulder, then promptly fell asleep in a second.

The person in his arms sleeping at the drop of a hat, Wang Liansheng was stunned for a moment, then gave a wry smile and closed his eyes too: Sleep, sleep!

Although they were moving back home, the basic furniture in the compound was all there, so there was no need to move large items. Just seasonal clothes for changing, some daily necessities, pots, bowls, and spoons would suffice.

Early in the morning, her eldest brother came back riding a motorcycle, while her sister-in-law came on the village’s tractor, bringing not only their family’s clothes and daily items but also several large bags of grain, a chicken caught in the morning, a big basket of eggs saved by Auntie, and homemade salted fish and shrimp paste…

Ling Chengyan looked at the pile, a bit amused and exasperated, stopping her sister-in-law who kept apologizing and feeling embarrassed, and directly instructed: “I’m not very good with these things, sister-in-law, could you help organize them?”

Zhao Erni cheerfully responded, “Ah, you rest, I’ll handle it.”

Seeing her busily at work, not being formal with her anymore, Ling Chengyan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, helping by moving the shrimp paste and salted fish jars into storage, and put the chicken in the coop at the corner of the yard along with grain and flour material into the kitchen and storage.

Ling Chengyan smiled, “Sister-in-law brought so much grain; it’s enough for us to eat until the New Year.”

Zhao Erni straightened up, wiping her forehead with the back of her hand, beaming, “Now we have the responsibility system, we manage our own land meticulously, and the grain yield is much higher than before. No longer afraid of big eaters. Go ahead and eat. Dad and Mom said, in two months, when this year’s new wheat comes in, we won’t eat the old stuff. It’ll all be new wheat, how fragrant!”

Having participated in communal farm labor herself, Ling Chengyan had some understanding of farming and naturally discussed the farming experience with her sister-in-law.

Sister-in-law said, “…Last year’s good cotton fetched over one yuan per jin. Growing cotton is profitable and doesn’t take much labor; women and children can manage it, and every household planted a lot, some over ten acres, which with favorable weather could earn thousands in a year. Our family has fewer people, and your big brother and second brother insisted not to plant as much, just over two acres, nearly three. Your Auntie said it’s enough to dress us adults and kids in new cotton, not relying on it for income…”

Sister-in-law was filled with irrepressible joy, visibly showing that life was indeed getting better, not envying others’ thousands of earnings!

Meanwhile, when Wang Liansheng got to the office, by chance he ran into that guy surnamed Zhou in the hallway. Mr. Zhou still had a few bruises on his face, all courtesy of Wang Liansheng. Upon seeing him, Zhou first shrank back in fear, then, mustering up some courage, glared fiercely at Wang Liansheng, huffed, and walked past him into the office.

Wang Liansheng did nothing more, not even a glance, casually entering the office just as another Hong Kong businessman introduced by Mr. Lian was coming over for an inspection, so he picked up his bag and left to accompany them.

For a few uneventful days, Wang Liansheng went to work during the day but hadn’t been coming home to cook for dinner as usual, saying he was busy with work.

Sister-in-law Zhao Erni had been visiting these days to chat with Ling Chengyan and help wash the children’s worn cotton clothes.

“Your washing machine is really good, makes washing effortless and can spin dry. Washed so many things in no time, and they come out half dry, air-drying for half a day makes them completely dry…” Zhao Erni praised the washing machine while checking the daylight and quickly shook off her hands to go in the kitchen to cook.

Moments later, she poked her head out of the kitchen to ask, “Has Liansheng been busy these days? Since I came, I barely saw him home for meals.”

Ling Chengyan smiled, “He’s been out with Hong Kong businessmen for field visits these days; once that’s over, things will settle down.”

Sister-in-law glanced at her younger brother’s wife, seeing her calm and at ease, she was reassured.

Can’t blame her for overthinking. Recently, there’s been a trend of officials trading in their spouses; they heard that at the commune, oh right, it’s now called the township, there were several cases where newly inducted petty officials no longer favored their old wives, clamored for divorce, and went to marry younger wives who had jobs.

Sigh, in the past, everyone was poor, struggling just to eat and dress, no energy for such thoughts; now that things have just started getting better, why has everyone’s heart changed?

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