Lu Zhanke looked indeed too horrible, gloomy and annoyed. Ai Changhuan shrank her shoulders subconsciously, thinking that he finally would fail to refrain himself from hitting her, but to her surprise, Lu got up from the bed suddenly.
Ai Changhuan screamed, and then pulled up the quilt to cover her head, “Hands off! It is against the law to hit others, so is domestic violence!”
Lu Zhanke turned back, intending to get back at her, but he failed to lose his temper when seeing her good-for-nothing look. He took out the clothes to wear today from the closet, then left, slamming the door behind.
Hearing the noise, Ai Changhuan pulled the quilt down and had a careful look. Lu Zhanke had been gone.
She beat the bed angrily. Seeing the bath towel on the side, she grabbed it angrily and threw it to the ground. After venting her temper, she couldn’t help crying.
Lu Zhanke, the bastard! She even bled so much…
With pain all over her body, Ai Changhuan felt rather weak, lying on the bed, crying and sulking.
Lu Zhanke arrived at his office early, then ordered the guard, Qiao Sheng, to announce that he would not see anyone today. “If Deputy Chief Ou Yang comes, then tell Ou Yang that he is training the team. If it is Pei, directly tell him that I do not want to see him.”
Lu Zhanke was not having an air of importance. Actually, it was because he really felt ashamed in that two red and thick slap prints were left on his face when he was slapped by Ai Changhuan, whose strength had improved a lot since she participated in agricultural labor. The young lady tended to transform into an iron lady.
He felt too humiliated to tell others that he was beaten by his wife.
In fact, Ai Changhuan had regretted when she slapped him, but after that the two got impatient and irritated that they couldn’t hold the impulse to come to blows. Ai Changhuan also knew that she had overdone, for her hand was even numb with the slap.
Though they quarreled, it was absolutely wrong to slap the other, but it was impossible for her to humble herself to admit her mistake in this case.
Because of the regret, she was still sulking at the moment.
After sending away the friends at noon, Pei Mu hurriedly went back to the office. Lu Zhanke should have left him with such a big deal, especially Lu must be hiding in somewhere and enjoying the leisure time.
At the entrance of Lu Zhanke’s office, Pei saw Qiao Sheng standing at the door. It was no need to ask, Lu Zhanke must be inside.
Pei Zheng was about to enter when Qiao Sheng stepped forward and stopped him, “Morning Commander! Captain Lu required that nobody could meet him today, so I have to stop you.”
Pei Zheng obviously regarded him as a child, “It’s none of your business, Lu and I have to discuss affairs.”
Qiao Sheng’s expression immediately changed, his seriousness turning to embarrassment, then he rubbed his hands and still guarded in front of Pei Zhao, though he was not as firm as he was at the beginning, “Well, Commander Pei, if you go in, Captain will shoot me.
Pei Soo pretended to kick him, “Go away, if I don’t go in today, it’s I who will shoot you.”
Qiao Sheng frowned and said, “Don’t do that! I have to raise my 80-year-old mother and a younger brother and sister to. I can’t die.”
“Really? Your mother gave birth to your brother and sister at eighty? Did you give birth?”
“That’s an exaggerated tactic. Don’t worry about me. Commander Pei, forgive me, let me go.”
“Come, as long as you can take my fists, I will forgive you.”
Then a second later Qiao Sheng exaggerated for help in the corridor.
“Take me one fist!”
“Ah!”
“Sweep the leg!”
“Uh!”
” Eight Extremes Quan!”
“I’m hurt!”
“The autumn wind sweeps the leaves!”
“Captain Lu! save me!”
In fact, as soon as Pei arrived, Lu Zhanke knew it. He thought that Qiao Sheng could block him, but to his surprise, Qiao told him the truth immediately. What was worse, he even worked with Pei to deceive him. They would finish that when they felt tired.
Talking about Pei Mu and Qiao Sheng, the two rehearsed a long time in the corridor and did not see Lu Zhanke appear, knowing that Lu had seen through their trick, which made them disappointed.
In order to pretend, they did the whole stuff: Pei kicked a screeching leg, and Qiao Sheng exaggeratedly took three steps back, then he stood still, covering his chest, spitting out blood that did not exist at all, “You’re terrific!”
“Thank you for letting me win!” Pei Mu pulled the collar, opened the door, and strode in.
Lu Zhanke was sitting behind his desk with his back to them.
Pei Zheng came forward and said directly, “Lu, it’s hard to see you. How come? You don’t even want to see me?”
Lu Zhanke slowly turned around, then stared coldly at Pei.
Pei Zheng was startled by his appearance. What the hell?
“Lu, your face …” Pei Zheng uttered hesitantly.
“This is greasepaint. Haven’t you seen it before?” Lu Zhanke asked angrily.
“I’ve seen it before, but we’ve been indoor combat training recently. There’s no field training, so there’s no need to paint like that.”
“I just want to take an assault training.” Lu Zhanke knocked the table, “Qiao Sheng!”
“Captain!” Qiao Sheng, who had been outside, rushed in immediately.
“Notify everyone, we will have train this afternoon!”
“Now?” Qiao Sheng was a little bit stunned. This was exactly the meal time. Lao Guo, who was in charge of cooking class, said that there was braised pork today.
But Lu Zhanke’s face was extremely ugly: “Now, immediately, at once!”
“Yes!” Qiao Sheng didn’t dare to say more, and saluted and ran away.
Pei Zheng glared at him: “What’s the matter with you? Did you take the wrong medicine?” Pei, who had been smiling, couldn’t help but looking serious, because he noticed that Lu Zhanke seemed to be in trouble. In this case, the training was just another way to vent his anger. The group of new recruits could not endure it at all! They would suffer from it.
Lu Zhanke didn’t speak with a scowl.
“Comrade Lu Zhanke!” Pei Mu couldn’t help emphasizing his tone.
Lu Zhanke was impatient, “What’s wrong with you? You are just like a regular old woman! It is for the benefit of them. When the war comes, the situation is even more abrupt than this. Do you think the enemy will inform you when they come? Will the war wait until you are ready? I’m training them to be ready to respond at any time! ”
“You!” Pei Mu was speechless by his words. “I can sense you in an erratic mood. What happened?”
“You’re in charge of private affairs?” Lu Zhanke quibbled.
“I am a political commissar and have a responsibility to care about the emotions of each soldier. As the leader of the entire regiment, your emotions are extremely important to everyone, so you must tell me.”
“I …” It was Lu Zhanke’s turn to be speechless, however, how could he tell the truth that he was beaten by Ai Changhuan? If he really did that, he could not stay and exert his influence here.
Lu Zhanke was sitting there, still, just like a mussel shell, and closed his mouth tightly, obviously refusing to say anything.
“Forget it, I’m too impatient to ask you.” Knowing that he could get nothing, Pei Mu chose to walk away. “I’m going back home. If you want to say something, remember to come to me.”
Pei Mu went outside and was about to go home when he met Qiao Sheng who returned from the assembly. He greeted with him and asked, “What happened to Lu?”
Qiao Sheng flinched, stuttering, “I … I don’t know …”
“Don’t you know? It’s you that picked him up today! Tell me! Hurry up!” Pei Mu looked a little scary when he was angry.
“I really don’t know. When Captain Lu went out, his face was so sulky that I was scared to say anything. As soon as we arrived, he kept himself in the office and said no one was allowed to meet him, then I didn’t know the other things. ”
“So, if there anything wrong with him today?”
“…” Qiao Sheng was about to cry. So, sometimes it was not good to know too much. To say or not to say, this was a question. Who could save him? He didn’t want to die!
“Tell me!” Looking at Qiao Sheng’s expression, Pei Mu knew that there must be something special that happened.
“Well… when I went out this morning … the chief seemed to have two slaps on his face …” Qiao Sheng answered weakly, then he cried with holding Pei Zheng’s thigh, “Commander,
You must not tell him it was I who told you. The captain will kill me. Really! ”
“Come on, just go ahead and report. I’ll take care of this.” In the entire barracks, who dared to slap Lu Zhanke, while he also refused to let anyone know. It was easy to guess that only Ai Changhuan could be the right one.
Above all, this was still a matter of the couple. It was really embarrassing for him to intervene. At present, he could only wait and see. If the couple would not have reconciled in a few days, he must let Yang Anxin step in.
“Oh, the young couple! Why do they fight with each other instead of getting along well?” Pei Mu shook his head and left with his hands on his back.
Trembling, Qiao Sheng reported the situation to Lu Zhanke, and was about to leave when Lu Zhanke called him again, “Stop, help me do something.”
“Wh… what?” Qiao Sheng found his legs shaking.
“Go to the cafeteria to have a meal and take it to my house.” Although he felt angry, Lu still remembered Ai Changhuan’s meals, and he was afraid she would not cook and go hungry.
After the order, he was annoyed with himself that why he cared about the woman who mistook good for bad. He should let her starve, maybe she would obedient after starving.
Qiao Sheng carefully looked at Lu Zhanke’s face, ensuring that he was not joking, and then asked: “Then … I’ll go to training after that?”
“You don’t have to come. Just … just take care of my house in case something wrong is going on, understand?” Fearing that Ai Changhuan would mess up everything, Lu Zhanke added, “In case anything happens, directly go to Pei’s wife.
“Yes, Chief!” Hearing that he could not participate in the training, Qiao Sheng immediately ran away, fearing that Lu Zhanke would regret it in the next second.
It really made Lu Zhanke feel headache, so it seemed to be the greatest truth in the world that, as Confucius put it, it was difficult to get along with a woman and a mean man.
Lu Zhanke rubbed his eyebrows, took up his military cap, and turned and left.
“New Recruits, I am sorry, you are going to be abused today.”