Political Commissar Zhou and Platoon Leader Zhang brought some apples and went with Qiu Chengyue to visit Shen Shuyue.
Shen Shuyue had already woken up.
At the moment, she was in the bathroom relieving herself.
When Qiu Chengyue brought the two men into the room, they immediately noticed that Shen Shuyue was nowhere to be seen, and his expression changed.
“Where is she?”
Political Commissar Zhou asked.
Qiu Chengyue said nothing. Instead, he hurried outside to look for a nurse.
There were no other nurses around. The only one there was Jiang Xinmei.
Qiu Chengyue asked her, “Where is Shen Shuyue?”
There was obvious anxiety in his voice.
Jiang Xinmei was still resentful inside, but she couldn’t let her personal feelings interfere with work.
She forcibly suppressed her anger and answered as normally as she could, “She was just in the ward.”
“Did she go somewhere?”
Qiu Chengyue frowned. “Where could she have gone?”
He then ran around looking for her elsewhere.
Shen Shuyue couldn’t even walk properly right now.
Political Commissar Zhou and Platoon Leader Zhang followed him and helped search.
After looking around for quite some time, a nurse finally came back from the other end of the corridor, pushing Shen Shuyue in a wheelchair.
The moment Qiu Chengyue saw her, he hurried over.
“Where did you go?”
Shen Shuyue answered matter-of-factly, “To the bathroom.”
Damn it, it hurt like hell.
She could barely move, and this man was still yelling at her.
What was he yelling for?
Qiu Chengyue frowned. “Did you really have to go all the way to the bathroom? Couldn’t you have gone in the ward?”
Shen Shuyue looked at him. “I couldn’t poop.”
Qiu Chengyue: “……”
Behind them, Political Commissar Zhou and Platoon Leader Zhang couldn’t help laughing.
These two were really something.
After returning to the ward, Qiu Chengyue saw that Shen Shuyue couldn’t move and simply picked her up and placed her on the bed.
“Eat.”
“There’s soup.”
He took out the food he had brought.
Shen Shuyue ignored Qiu Chengyue and instead turned to Political Commissar Zhou.
“Political Commissar Zhou, what brings you here?”
“And how should I address this comrade?”
She didn’t know Platoon Leader Zhang.
Political Commissar Zhou smiled and introduced him. “This is Platoon Leader Zhang.”
“We heard that you were injured, so we came to check on you.”
“How did you hurt your foot this badly?”
Shen Shuyue glanced at Qiu Chengyue and casually said, “He kicked me.”
Qiu Chengyue: “……”
Political Commissar Zhou: “……”
Platoon Leader Zhang: “……”
The atmosphere in the ward seemed to freeze.
This……
“Captain Qiu kicked you? What happened? Captain Qiu, how could you hit your own wife? That’s domestic violence. What you did was wrong.”
“You’ll have to write a self-criticism when you get back, and properly apologize to Comrade Shen Shuyue.”
“You can’t just hit people whenever you feel like it. She’s a young woman with such thin arms and legs. Look at what you’ve done to her. She’s seriously injured!”
Political Commissar Zhou was clearly displeased.
Qiu Chengyue had been wrongly accused, and his expression turned cold as he looked at Shen Shuyue.
“I didn’t kick her, and I didn’t abuse her.”
“I just accidentally bumped into her.”
Last night had truly been nothing more than an instinctive reaction.
Qiu Chengyue had lived for twenty-four years and had never slept with a woman before.
It was his first time sleeping with Shen Shuyue the previous night. When she had casually placed her foot on his, he wasn’t used to it, and his body had reacted instinctively.
Political Commissar Zhou still looked skeptical. “It really was just an accidental bump?”
“Can an accidental bump leave her in this condition?”
Qiu Chengyue: “……”
Shen Shuyue kept her head down and continued eating as Political Commissar Zhou spoke.
Political Commissar Zhou continued trying to mediate.
“You’re husband and wife. Couples may quarrel at the head of the bed, but they make up before the foot of the bed.”
“You’re both young and hot-blooded. You just got married, so there are still plenty of things you need to get used to about each other.”
Shen Shuyue replied obediently, “Okay, Political Commissar Zhou.”
Her voice was clear and lively, with a hint of girlish sweetness.
She certainly didn’t look like someone who had been abused by her husband.
Qiu Chengyue took a deep breath but had no intention of exposing her lie.
After seeing that Shen Shuyue was fine, Political Commissar Zhou and Platoon Leader Zhang chatted with her for a while, expressed their concern, and then left.
Halfway through her meal, Shen Shuyue noticed Qiu Chengyue’s burning gaze fixed on her.
She felt a little guilty—but only a little.
“Why are you looking at me?”
Qiu Chengyue asked, “Wasn’t the injury on your foot caused by me?”
Shen Shuyue: “Yes, you kicked me.”
Then there was nothing more.
Shen Shuyue: “?”
He wasn’t going to argue?
Wasn’t he even going to glare at her?
Why was he just staring at her like that?
“Why are you looking at me?”
“Are you going to eat?”
She pointed at the food in the lunchbox.
Qiu Chengyue shook his head. “No.”
“Suit yourself. I’ll eat it.”
She actually couldn’t finish all the food.
There was soup, stir-fried dishes, and all sorts of other things. It was simply too much.
After drinking half a bowl of soup and eating some vegetables and rice, Shen Shuyue couldn’t eat anymore.
“I want to go home.”
She said it plainly.
She couldn’t sleep if she had to spend the night in the hospital.
The family compound was right next door, so going home was convenient.
“Find me a wheelchair.”
Qiu Chengyue glanced at her and began packing up the food containers.
There was still a lot of food left. He could take it home and eat it himself.
Throwing it away would be wasteful.
Once everything was packed up, Qiu Chengyue went to get a wheelchair.
He gathered the things they needed, then pushed Shen Shuyue back to the family compound.
Jiang Xinmei hid in a corner and watched Qiu Chengyue leave.
Her heart nearly shattered.
Qiu Chengyue hadn’t been like this before.
If Shen Shuyue hadn’t appeared, if Shen Shuyue hadn’t seduced Qiu Chengyue, things wouldn’t have turned out this way.
Back at the family compound, many of the women were still hoping they could get some of the food supplies.
When Shen Shuyue and Qiu Chengyue returned, the women were gathered together discussing the matter.
The moment the two appeared, the women immediately stopped talking about it.
“Captain Qiu, you’re back!”
“Comrade Shen Shuyue, what happened? Is your foot injured?”
“Oh my, you poor thing. You can’t even walk!”
“Does it hurt badly? How long will it take to heal?”
The women speaking to Shen Shuyue and Qiu Chengyue were merely trying to make a good impression on them.
They hoped Shen Shuyue would remember their kindness and ask the army to distribute some food to their families.
After all, the supplies were free. Who wouldn’t want some?
Shen Shuyue replied, “It’s just a minor injury.”
Qiu Chengyue, however, completely ignored them.
When they reached the building, the wheelchair couldn’t be taken upstairs.
Without saying a word, Qiu Chengyue bent down and picked Shen Shuyue up again.
Shen Shuyue: “……”
This man’s strength was incredible.
When he carried her, he didn’t even look the slightest bit out of breath.
And it felt surprisingly safe.
Naturally, she wrapped her arms around Qiu Chengyue’s neck and rested her head against his chest.
Just as they reached their door, Aunt Zhang came out of her own home.
When she saw Qiu Chengyue carrying Shen Shuyue, her mouth opened and closed several times, her eyes filled with disbelief.
“This…… Why are you carrying her?”
“She can’t walk?”
“Is it really that serious?”
“Back when we injured our legs, no matter how much it hurt, we still had to walk ourselves. No one carried us……”
Aunt Zhang continued rambling on and on, but Qiu Chengyue had already pushed open the door and walked inside.
He even used his elbow to close the door behind him.
The chatter from outside was instantly shut out.
Seeing this, Shen Shuyue smiled sweetly.
“That Aunt Zhang seems to like you.”