Chapter 9: Being caught gossiping
Xia Mi carried the small iron bucket and walked towards the seaside.
The wind in early spring was still biting, and a gust of wind blew in my face. The cold made Xia Mi shrink his neck, and sighed in his heart that he was lucky to have a headscarf.
She put on her bucket boots, carefully climbed onto the rock, and squatted on it.
The novelty of cracking oysters attracted Xia Mi. She used tools to crack one oyster at a time. The shell was pried open to reveal the tender white meat with a faint fishy smell. She then used an iron spoon to cut it out and threw it into a bucket.
The action repeats over and over again, accompanied by the waves and the sound of the ship's whistle in the distance, Xia Mi squats on the rocks and struggles for money.
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Zhuifeng Island Military Region Hospital.
Yan Yiming was lying down to recuperate. Ever since Xia Mi arrived, he felt like there were ants crawling all over his body and he felt uncomfortable no matter what.
Li Jiajia walked into the ward wearing a headscarf.
"Jiajia, why are you still wearing a headscarf indoors?"
Yan Yiming was puzzled. He remembered that Li Jiajia complained that the headscarf looked ugly and looked like an old woman.
When Li Jiajia heard her lover's voice, her grievances poured out.
She sat next to the hospital bed, raised her hand and took off her headscarf, revealing the eye-catching palm prints.
"My dad beat me because of Xia Mi." Li Jiajia choked, her nose was sore, and hot tears fell on the back of her hands. "This is the first time my dad beat me, and it happened because of an outsider."
Yan Yiming was shocked that he was the first to care.
"What happened to Xia Mi?"
Li Jiajia stopped crying, and her eyes turned from sad to stunned, showing signs of getting angry.
After Yan Yiming realized that he had said something wrong, he quickly apologized, "I mean she caused something bad again. No matter how hard it is, the instructor can't hit someone."
Li Jiajia felt better now that someone was on her side.
Yan Yiming patiently coaxed people, while Li Jiajia explained the matter of Huo Jingchen and Xia Mi's marriage report.
The person on the bed couldn't react for a long time after hearing this, "Didn't you say that Camp Commander Huo has a fiancée? Why, why do you really want to marry Xia Mi?"
"How did I know that Huo Jingchen is a sanctimonious hypocrite. He may have abandoned his fiancée and found a new love. He actually made up a story about not having a fiancée."
Li Jiajia's curse words turned into a sharp blade, stabbing straight into the softest part of Yan Yiming's heart.
Abandoning his fiancée and looking for a new love, isn't it him?
It's a pity that Li Jiajia has beauty in the eyes of lovers at this moment, and she doesn't realize that these words hurt Yan Yiming.
"Captain Huo must have considered his decision, Jiajia, does your face still hurt?"
Yan Yiming suppressed his guilty conscience and raised his hand to gently caress Li Jiajia's cheek with a soft voice.
Faced with this kind of intimate gesture, Li Jiajia blushed and shook her head shyly, "It doesn't hurt now."
"I wrote to my mother to send some cream. Yours should be running out soon." After saying that, Yan Yiming yawned, "The wound hurt too much last night and I didn't get a good rest. I want to catch up on some sleep."< br>
"It's not finished yet. No need to bother Auntie, I'll go and get started first."
Li Jiajia's mood changed from gloomy to sunny, and she left the ward happily.
The moment he left the ward, Yan Yiming put away his smile, looked out the window expressionlessly, and decided to take the time to find Xia Mi.
Li Jiajia was so happy that she forgot to put her headscarf back on and walked to the nurse's station.
"Jiajia, what's wrong with your face? Did Yan Yiming hit you?"
The nurses at the nursing station were immediately attracted. All of them had just finished changing medicines and it was rare for them to take a break.
As soon as the typing words came out, he instantly became serious.
Li Jiajia shook her head and explained, worried that everyone would misunderstand, "No, I was beaten by my father."
As soon as the gossip came out, the curiosity buried in everyone's bones was aroused, and the three nurses surrounded everyone.
"Your dad loves you so much, why would he suddenly hit you?"
Li Jiajia did not hide anything. She told everything about Xia Mi's arrival on the island and her marriage to Huo Jingchen, and she packaged herself and Yan Yiming as victims.
People who have never met and don't understand Xia Mi have a very bad first impression of her.
Among them, family members who were passing by could not help but stop at the nurse station and join in the fun. Within half a day, word spread throughout the hospital that Xia Mi was the fake daughter and Yan Yiming's fiancée.
Then it is transmitted from the hospital to the family home.
Someone saw Xia Mi going to Jiang Shengmei's house in the morning, and a few close friends came to inquire.
A woman wearing a gray coat, about 1.5 meters tall, with braids hanging down behind her buttocks, spoke first.
"Sister-in-law Shengmei, you know that Xia Mi, you must also know about her, right?"
Another one, about 1.7 meters tall, with a long face, the same wheat-colored skin, single eyelids and small eyes followed.
"I would say what Camp Commander Huo likes about her is that she is pretty. But after marrying such a daughter-in-law, will she be able to feel at ease when she goes on a mission?"
Jiang Shengmei squatted in the dirt in the yard and weeded.
She turned her head and looked at the two of them doubtfully, "Where did you know this?"
"It came from the hospital. Sister-in-law Liu just sent her second baby to the hospital for infusion. I heard from Jiajia that Jiajia is Yiming's partner. This news must be true!"
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Jiang Shengmei threw the weeds in her hands to the ground.
For the first time, she felt disgusted with the child she had watched since childhood.
"This is a matter of the army and Battalion Commander Huo's personal decision. No one can interfere. If you feel uncomfortable, go to him and persuade him to go."
Jiang Shengmei thought of Xia Mi's innocent face, but never imagined that she would be the kind of evil-doing person Li Jiajia said, who was driven to the island to marry as a substitute.
"Sister Shengmei, I'm back. Thank you for lending me something."
A gentle female voice came from the door. Xia Mi was wearing black bucket boots. There were three or four drops of mud on her white face, and her eyes were smiling, like a little white cat with a painted face.
The two people chatting turned into stone statues and looked at Xia Mi awkwardly.
Jiang Shengmei glanced at the two of them helplessly, stepped forward to pick up the things, and glanced at a bag of shells wrapped in Xia Mi's handkerchief, a small bag full.
"On this little thing, you spent all morning?"
Xia Mi hesitated and smiled sheepishly, "I was slow, and I happened to have nothing to do, so I chose slowly at the beach."
In fact, she earned 45 yuan from digging three kilograms of oysters in one morning.
The first time she dug, there were several small cuts on her hands. Although no blood was seen, the fingertips were soaked in water for a long time and turned white, and the wounds were obvious.
She originally wanted to deal with the problem by touching a few shells, but there were very few good-looking and complete shells. It took her an hour to collect a bag.
"Then go back quickly, it's already noon."
Xia Mi's cheeks were flushed red by the sun.
Xia Mi returned her things and was stopped when she was about to leave. They greeted her warmly.
"Comrade Xia, I heard that you are getting married to Camp Commander Huo. May I ask where your hometown is?"
Xia Mi stopped and looked back at the two of them, his eyes gradually turning cold, "Where is my hometown? Didn't Li Jiajia tell you? I thought she would tell you everything."
One sentence made the whole place fall into silence.
The two looked at each other in confusion, and it wasn't until Xia Mi left that they started talking in a panic.
"Did she hear it? Hey, what the hell are you doing, standing at the door and eavesdropping on people talking."
When someone caught him talking nonsense, the tall man made arrogant remarks and talked about Xia Mi's faults.
The same goes for another person.
"No, the look in her eyes just now was so scary. Sister-in-law Jiang, does your political commissar really want to approve the application for Camp Commander Huo? Camp Commander Huo is such a good person, do you really want to marry such a person?"< br>
After Xia Mi took two steps, he realized that the headscarf had not been returned yet, so he turned back.
Just happened to hear these words.
(End of chapter)