Siheyuan Great Craftsmen

Chapter 904 Complaints, Bitterness

In the next few days, Zhou Tian continued to move between the workers and various areas under the identity of Zhao Gang. Gradually, as he gained more insights, he gained a more thorough understanding of the former commander-in-chief and the situation of the base.

But the more he understood, the more confused he felt about the specific answers. He felt as if there was an invisible hand controlling everything in the base.

The former commander-in-chief seemed like a chess piece that was deliberately pushed out by someone.

The management of the entire base includes a deputy commander-in-chief and several regional heads. If he had not known from his superiors that the deputy commander-in-chief was an old revolutionary, he would even doubt whether this was a trap set by him.

After all, if the commander-in-chief had not been eliminated and parachuted in, he should have been the ultimate beneficiary.

However, after he felt and understood the deputy commander these days, he gave up this idea. Because the deputy commander was about to retire, it was impossible for him to do this for the position of commander-in-chief.

A month passed in the blink of an eye.

Zhou Tian had just finished dealing with some documents that day and had just walked to the door of his house when he saw a red cloth tied to the door handle. His eyes narrowed instantly and he took off the red cloth calmly, then opened the door and walked in as if nothing had happened.

"Husband, are you back?"

As Wu Yue'e's pregnancy progressed, her movements became slower, but she still opened the door and walked out of the house as soon as possible.

"Well, I'm back. Didn't I tell you not to come out if you have trouble moving? Besides, I'm not a child anymore, so don't worry about me!"

Zhou Tian continued to move forward helplessly, and helped Wu Yue'e back home. He scratched her nose and said with some complaints.

"Honey, it's okay. I just want to see you as soon as possible. Besides, I've been resting at home all day long. I'm actually very depressed. Only when you come back, can I be happy!"

Unexpectedly, Wu Yue'e suddenly looked at her husband with her beautiful eyes full of affection, and said something in a gentle tone that gave him goose bumps all over his body.

Zhou Tian couldn't help but shudder all over, and even looked at Wu Yue'e speechlessly and asked, "Who taught you to say that, honey? I remember you never talk like that!"

Hearing her husband's question, Wu Yue'e's pretty face suddenly blushed with embarrassment. She didn't dare to look at her husband, but asked him: "Husband, it's been a month, and my eldest sister's confinement is getting worse. Shouldn't you take her back too?"

"Hey, I'm also trying to figure out a solution for this, but the hospital at the base has a big problem right now. Although I really want to transfer Yulin back right now, she has to wait until I solve the problem at the hospital!"

As expected, Zhou Tian was diverted by Wu Yue'e's words. Speaking of his wife Shen Yulin, he was also worried, but the problem was that as he investigated the base, he increasingly felt that there was an invisible force spreading in the base. As long as this force was not eradicated, he really did not dare to let his wife come back to take charge of the base hospital.

"It seems that we need to speed up the progress!"

He thought so in his heart.

"Is the situation at the base hospital really that serious? But I still see that doctors at Peninsula Hospital also accept bribes. Is this issue really that important?"

Although Wu Yue'e did not understand what her husband had done, she had heard him say a few words about it. However, she did not think there was anything wrong with the red envelopes. After all, this custom was no longer strange to her on the peninsula.

"It's not that simple. Okay, don't think too much about it. Your belly is already five or six months bigger than others. You should have a good rest. I'll cook for you. Be good!"

Zhou Tian coaxed Wu Yue'e for a few words as if he was coaxing a child, then turned and walked towards the kitchen.

Although he had been giving Wu Yue'e nourishing food during this period, she was pregnant with twins after all, and the nutrition she needed to consume was twice that of an average pregnant woman. Naturally, he needed to prepare some nutritionally balanced meals for her as much as possible.

Soon, as he cooked smoothly, a rich aroma of food filled the entire room and even drifted outside the house. Many of the neighbors around were so greedy by the aroma that they started drooling.

"I say, Cui'e, can we have a good meal? Every day I drool over the food at the commander's house. This is not the same thing. How about you go and buy some meat tomorrow and we can have dumplings!"

In the next room, a family of four was eating steamed buns made of two-grain flour. On the table was a plate of stir-fried celery and a plate of stir-fried shredded potatoes with lard. Although these two dishes looked simple, they were considered rare delicacies in the entire family quarters.

"I still want to eat, but can you buy meat? Or can you buy other vegetables?"

Li Cui'e was eating a steamed bun with some dishes and couldn't help but rolled her eyes and asked back.

"this?"

The husband was immediately stumped by his wife's question. The main reason was that the conditions here were like this. Since the weather was always very hot, many vegetables could not be preserved. Except in winter, when there could be more dishes, the rest of the time, there were basically only a few dishes.

Even the meat supply is only once every three days, but there are already quite a few employees at the base, and their salaries are not low. Once the meat arrives, it will be snatched up in less than half an hour.

Especially since most of the people in the base are men, not to mention their desire for meat.

For a moment, facing the eager eyes of the two children, he could only lower his head and continue eating. Although he could not grab the meat, he could eat two more steamed buns by smelling the fragrance.

"Old Chang, look at how much Xiaotian loves his wife. Look at you, you cook meat for your wife every day. But my family has only had meat twice in almost a month since we came to the Northwest Base! I think if it continues like this, I might as well go back to the Forbidden City and be with my daughter!"

Next door, Chang Weijun and his wife naturally also smelled the fragrance, and they both swallowed their saliva at the same time. Chang Weijun's wife couldn't bear it any longer, so she put down her bowl and chopsticks and started complaining.

"Well, isn't it that the base is short of supplies? Just bear with it. Besides, didn't Brother Zhou invite you? It was you who refused to go, but now you are angry with me!"

Chang Weijun also felt aggrieved. In fact, it was not his fault. The whole base was like this. He had no other choice. As for eating meat on Zhou Tian, he knew that his sons in Sijiu City would send him more than ten kilograms of bacon every week.

Although he was also envious of the bacon, his daughter had never thought about the fact that her father and Zhou Tian lived next door.

Alas, thinking about other people's sons and then thinking about his own daughter, he sometimes even wondered if he had made a mistake by marrying his daughter to Zhou Tian's third brother.

It seems that I must give my daughter some advice next time I go back. As her father-in-law, I am also at the base. I wonder if this prospective son-in-law doesn't want to live a good life with my daughter.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a sour nose and looked towards the next room with some resentment.