Lu Jiang was left speechless by his wife’s words. After a while, he said, "On the way back, I saw a girl kneeling by the roadside, crying and selling this pair of bracelets. She said it was a family heirloom and she wanted to pay for her mother’s surgery. I felt sorry for her; she’s about the sa age as Fubao, but her clothes were much poorer in comparison, yet she has a heart full of filial piety. So, I took out the money and bought them."
"You didn’t do anything wrong; you did the right thing. If it were , I would have done the sa," Feng Qingxue said, praising her husband’s actions. Then she noticed sothing amiss, "You only had twenty yuan on you when you left, did she only need twenty yuan?"
Could it be a minor surgery? Major surgeries are quite expensive.
Lu Jiang glanced at his wife, "This is what I wanted to talk to you about next."
"Speak!" Feng Qingxue said, vaguely guessing what it was about.
Lu Jiang coughed, "I borrowed one hundred and twenty yuan from the guards. I borrowed thirty yuan from each of my four guards. You’ll give so money so I can pay them back later."
Feng Qingxue glanced at him and said with amusent, "Weren’t you embarrassed to borrow money?"
"Why should I be embarrassed? Besides you, who else carries so much money on them for no reason?" Lu Jiang didn’t mind that his act of kindness required him to borrow money from the guards and might be laughed at, "Besides, I did a good deed, not a bad one."
Feng Qingxue pulled out twelve large bills from her space for him.
"I bought so waterlons from outside and brought them back. They’re downstairs, you can take two and share them with everyone."
"Waterlons are being sold this early?" Lu Jiang said, but he knew in his heart that they were fruits stored in his wife’s space. He rembered her ntioning a few tis that the space was full of cantaloupes, but she had no reason to take them out and share with everyone, so they could only consu one or two secretly by themselves, which was really a sha.
Feng Qingxue shrugged, "The early lons from the greenhouse have already been harvested. The other day I saw that the farm at the foot of Jade Spring Mountain sent so over, not enough for the kids to eat. There are a few being sold sparingly on the market, but the insiders have already taken them before they’re even displayed in the store."
If not for that, she wouldn’t dare to bring out the waterlons so openly.
Lu Jiang grunted, took the money to repay the guards, and also shared two waterlons with them.
"Our leader is really good." After Lu Jiang left, the two guards who were on rotation and shared a room looked at each other and felt fortunate.
Good people, fewer chores, being placed here made their fellow guards in the corps quite envious.
Lu Jiang and Feng Qingxue were famous for being kind and approachable in the compound. Their children were the sa, especially respectful to teachers and military personnel in the compound, regardless of rank. There were indeed mischievous ones, like Lu Erxiong, but not to the point of being a headache or annoyance.
"What do you think, if I ever have anything to ask Comrade Qingxue, will she help us?" As they ate the waterlon, one of the guards, Xiaowu, suddenly asked.
Opposite him, Wang Qiao said, "It depends on the matter. If it’s reasonable, Comrade Qingxue probably wouldn’t refuse. Our two leaders are really generous. The military coat I’m wearing is from Leader Lu!"
Xiaowu humd in agreent, eating while lost in thought.
"Do you have sothing in mind?" Wang Qiao curiously asked him.
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