The guards in the military camp and the onlookers were indifferent to this. Each of them had a strange expression.

"Standing attentively, salute!" The guard raised his hand and saluted. A soldier walked out of the barracks and walked out of the barracks.

"Brother." The body of the black fat man seemed to have shrunk a circle than before.

"Sir." The black skinny man also lowered his head.

"You two come here every day, why haven't you had enough fun yet?" the soldier frowned.

"No, I, I..." The black skinny man was timid and wanted to explain something, but under the gaze of the soldiers, he couldn't say it.

The soldier sighed, looked at the melon-eating crowd who were watching the show, and found the oldest fisherman from it, walked towards him, and reached out to him.

"Hello, fellow villager."

"Hello, sir." The fisherman quickly put down the fishing basket, wiped his hands hard on the lapel, and then held the soldiers' hands with both hands.

"My fellow villager, now you call me a comrade or a mate. My name is Sun Cheng, that's my younger brother Chef Cao." Sun Cheng pointed to the fat black man. "May I ask, you and this lesbian are..."

"She is Zheng Ziyun." The fat black man, Chef Cao, introduced in a low voice. Sun Cheng glared at Chef Cao. The thin black man, Zheng Ziyun, had his head lowered, but his ears stood up.

"I am the third uncle of Yun Yatou, and they are her cousins. We are all fishermen from Shajiao Village nearby, and we are here to deliver fresh seafood to the soldiers."

"Old man, let's talk in private?" Sun Cheng and Uncle Zheng San walked aside and talked.

Zheng Ziyun moved a few steps and approached Chef Cao.

"Hey, is he your brother? Is he very fierce?" Zheng Ziyun lowered her head, looked at her feet, and asked quietly.

"Well, he is five years older than me. We lived in the same yard and grew up together. He took special care of me when he was young. Before leaving home, my parents asked me to listen to him and he would make the decision on my business." Chef Cao explained carefully, as if he had seen spring.

After a while, Sun Cheng finished talking with the third uncle of the Zheng family and walked back.

"Comrade Zheng Ziyun, thank you for your support. But the army is disciplined and does not take the masses one by one. A few times, you took the letter of introduction issued by the local government and sent the fish and shrimp you brought to support the army. We accepted it. Today, you want to sell us the fish and shrimp you have worked hard to catch with 10% of the market price. We must not accept this. Chef, please arrange it and settle the account according to the market price." Sun Cheng waved his hand and stopped Zheng Ziyun from saying what he wanted to say.

"There is another thing. I just heard from Comrade Lao Zheng that you are not married yet. My younger brother has been in the revolution since he was 16 years old and has been in the army. He is 28 this year and has not been married yet. These days, I think he seems to have a good impression of you, and I don't know what you think of him? His parents are in the capital, so I can make the decision for his family. If you think he is still successful, the day after tomorrow is a rest day, I will take him to the village to visit your parents."

The onlookers applauded, and the third uncle of the Zheng family also nodded with a smile.

Zheng Ziyun was shy. She stomped her feet and turned to run towards the fishing boat. After running a few steps, she turned around and blushed to Sun Cheng and said loudly: "I...I'll call my brother to pick you up the morning after tomorrow." After that, she ran away.

That night at free time, Sun Cheng and Chef Cao found a place where no one was chatting.

"Brother, how do you know that I like Ziyun?"

"Nonsense. I can't tell you that you're in a state of uneasiness these days? The food you cook is either battered or salt is not added. If this continues, everyone will starve to death. Besides, who will change into a new military uniform when purchasing and transporting food?"

"Then what do you think of her? Do she like me?"

"She looked at you just like when your sister-in-law looked at me back then. Don't worry, you can't make a mistake. In the afternoon, the political commissar went to the command center for a meeting. I asked him to buy a generous gift in the city and take it back tomorrow. Let's go to the door to propose marriage the day after tomorrow." Sun Cheng revealed the information to the chef: "In the morning, her third uncle told me that she is not a fisherman. Her family opened a printing workshop in Xiangjiang. After studying in middle school in Xiangjiang, she went to the workshop to do proofreading work. Now she is going back to the village with her parents. So, we don't have to go to Xiangjiang, just go directly to the village the day after tomorrow. Your parents should be able to accept this daughter-in-law. The key problem now is whether her parents are willing to let her marry far away. Fortunately, she is not an only daughter, and she has an older brother."

Sun Cheng is helping Chef Cao analyze.

"Brother, then does her family like me?" Chef Cao was a little worried about gains and losses.

"What are you saying? Take out the courage to kill the enemy with a kitchen knife on the battlefield." Sun Cheng was angry and refused to argue: "Although you are a logistics officer, you are a battalion-level cadre now and have good cabinet skills. After returning to the capital, the government will definitely arrange a good job for you, so why can't you be worthy of her?"

"I'm fine, I'm a logistics person anyway. But, brother, are you really willing to take off this military uniform?"

"I'm reluctant to let it go, so what?" Sun Cheng sighed. He took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, distributed one for Chef Cao, and picked up one himself. Chef Cao quickly took out a match and lit it for Sun Cheng first.

"We have been in the army for twelve years, but fortunately we have not been seriously injured and have not been separated. Now, most parts of the country have been liberated and there is no big battle to fight. The country can be said to be in trouble now. There is no need to support so many troops. Instead, we need to go back to the local area to carry out construction and promote production. Recently, the political commissar and I took turns to the command center to attend a meeting to learn the spirit issued by the central government. From next year, the country will issue some relevant policies. The order our delegation has received now is to repair and maintain the situation.

Maintain local order and mobilize the majority of commanders and fighters to respond to the national call and actively participate in local construction. As the leader of the regiment, I must set an example. Besides, we are both only sons in the family. In the past, in order to fight against the Japanese and liberation of China, we had to leave home to fight. Now, it is time to go home to pay filial piety to our parents. At the beginning of this year, after the capital was peacefully liberated, when we took leave and went home, you didn’t see the four old men’s hair turning white? Now it’s your sister-in-law at home, and we will do our filial piety for us. When the military order is over next year, we will go back."

"Last time when you came home, you left your sister-in-law and two nephews in the capital. I was so happy that I burst into tears when I saw Aunt Sun."

"Don't talk about me. If the day after tomorrow goes well, you will take Zheng Ziyun home next year. I'll see if your parents are happy. By the way, when you are at home, your mother told me several times that she would ask me to help you get married early. I can complete the task. It's getting late, go to bed, and you'll have to have sex tomorrow morning."

As the wishes come true, Chef Cao's proposal to marry was a complete success. Two months later, in the Spring Festival of 1951, he got married with Comrade Zheng Ziyun in the old house of Zheng's family in Shajiao Village. In July of the same year, Chef Cao took Zheng Ziyun, who was 5 months pregnant, and took the train to the capital with Sun Cheng.

At the end of the year, a little life was born. In a two-entry old house in the Xihuang City, next to the capital Beihai Park, a joint meeting called "Newborn Naming Conference" is in full swing. The participants of the meeting were all members of the Sun and Cao families. Among them, Sun Weiguo, who was only 7 years old and his two-year-old younger brother Sun Weihua, the two children, attended the meeting in the spirit of participation, with only the right to speak and no decision.

The first resolution of the meeting was to pass it unanimously, depriving the old Comrade Cao Tianbao of his right to naming, and the parties' objections were invalid. The evidence was sufficient, that was, a certain old Comrade had a bad history of naming a strange name like "Chef".

Grandma of the Cao family gave up the right to naming on the grounds that she didn't know much literacy. In this way, Chef Cao took over the naming right as the reason. Although Comrade Zheng Ziyun, who was in seclusion in the next room, seemed to have a strong desire to participate in the competition, she was cruelly ignored by Chef Cao.

Sun Cheng looked at the "Kangxi Dictionary" that was about to be turned over by Chef Cao with heartache. It was bought and given to him by Lao Jintou after he taught Xiao Sun Cheng to learn to write. Although all the property left by Lao Jintou now belongs to Sun Cheng, this dictionary carries the feeling of being like a grandfather-grandson, a master-apprentice, and a friend of age.

The old golden head has passed away.
Chapter completed!