The Bravest

After the gold robbery, Zhang Guozhen and Wu Sibao were arrested one after another. Li Shiqun was busy dealing with the pressure from the Japanese and trying to save Wu Sibao's life. Lin Jie benefited from the cover-up of these scapegoats and also began his pre-marital work.

Lin Jie was in unprecedented trouble at this time. It was mid-December, and there was still half a month until New Year's Day of 12, the day when Lin Jie would marry Sun Yuelan. Except for a small western-style building sent by Gangcun Zhengxiong as Sun Yuelan's dowry, everything else was not ready. Gangcun was already urging him.

If it were just that, it would be fine. The key point is that the relationship between Lin Jie and Liu Haitang is already semi-public. Ye Wulian was originally very unwilling to let Sun Yuelan come in, but she had to accept it under pressure from the Japanese. Now Lin Jie and Liu Haitang are obviously different in nature, how can she not be sad? Every day when he returned home and faced Ye Wulian's sad eyes, Lin Jie wanted to escape.

Lin Jie has been working overtime in Room 76 for three consecutive days. He can't delay any longer, so he decided to go home early today and have a good talk with Ye Wulian. He hasn't figured out how to talk yet. While he was worrying, Liu Sheng knocked on the door and came in.

"Brother, the gold has been buried here. Only Yidao and I know where it is. Do you want to go and have a look?" Liu Sheng sneaked into Lin Jie's small office and told him that the stolen gold had been processed. "There are 85 pieces in total, each weighing 6.5 kilograms, which adds up to more than a thousand kilograms."

"I won't go to see it. Let's forget about what I told everyone about this. It can't be seen in the public for a while. I'll save it for marrying a wife later." Lin Jie didn't know what was wrong with him. He would mention the word "wife" at every turn.

"Brother, I don't need that much. It looks annoying." Liu Sheng's words were quite interesting.

"What's wrong? Are you afraid of having too much money? You've only had enough food for a few days, and you still look annoying?" Lin Jie looked at Liu Sheng strangely. Why is this kid a little weird today?

"Brother, what I mean is that you don't need so many wives, one is enough. I don't want to be scared like you and hide in No. 76 and dare not go back." Liu Sheng left a harsh remark and wanted to run away.

"Stop, come back." Lin Jie called back Liu Sheng who was about to slip away.

"Liu Sheng, tell me honestly, which sister-in-law do you think is the best?" Lin Jie might be really crazy. What's the point of asking a kid this kind of question? It would be strange if Liu Sheng could move? "Forget it, you are such a kid, you don't know shit. I'd better figure it out myself."

"Hey, big brother, you are wrong to say that. I am almost sixteen. In the early years, there was no war. Some impatient people have become fathers. Do you believe it?" Liu Sheng was immediately dissatisfied when he heard Lin Jie say that he was a brat. He listened to his big brother in everything and risked his life for him. He knew that Lin Jie could avoid taking risks for those orphans. He was also an orphan. He had never seen a person who could do something that he didn't need to do for an orphan like him, like Lin Jie did. So Liu Sheng was convinced. But if he was just bragging, Liu Sheng wouldn't have to give face to his big brother.

"Oh, you still want to be a father? Tell me honestly, are you attracted to my sister Ruolan? I warn you, don't even think about it before you are 18 years old. It's not good to get married too early because your body is not yet mature. Do you understand?"

"Tsk, I get it. You're going to marry three girls, and you still have the mind to care about me." Liu Sheng said it firmly, but his evasive eyes could not escape Lin Jie's eyes.

"Well, since you, Liu Sheng, are old enough to be a father, then help your eldest brother to decide which sister-in-law is better?" Lin Jie was feeling annoyed now, and thought it would be nice to brag to Liu Sheng to kill time.

"Hehe, then I will analyze it carefully for you, brother." Liu Sheng began to teach his elder brother seriously.

"Start from big to small." With a snap, Liu Sheng received a slap on the back of his head.

"What do you mean by big or small? They are all the same, do you understand?" Lin Jie didn't want to know who was the concubine. In his opinion, all those who came into the house were the same, so Lin Jie was worried.

"Oh, big brother is right. Well, let me put it this way. Miss Ye is generous, gentle, and has the demeanor of a mistress of the house. Big brother, you don't know that Li Jing is now taught by Miss Ye to act like a housekeeper. He is worried about who is doing the work and has to give more instructions. Teacher Liu is kind. Look how good she is to the children and big brother. She is a good wife and mother. The task of educating the children in the future will be handed over to Teacher Liu. Teacher Sun is amazing. She can help outside and is the best at managing a business like ours. So big brother, don't worry. They all have their own advantages. You just arrange them according to their respective advantages. It's a piece of cake."

Liu Sheng was so awesome that he arranged the future positions of the three sisters-in-law in the Lin family, which made Lin Jie stunned. Suddenly, Lin Jie remembered something: "How do you know that Teacher Sun is so powerful that he can manage what we are doing now?"

"Brother, last time Teacher Sun asked me and Yidao to accompany her to the French Concession to pick up a batch of goods. Everything was agreed upon. Yidao and I were inspecting the goods. Then, someone who didn't know how to live or die saw that Teacher Sun was pretty. There were only three of us, so he tried to touch Teacher Sun. In the end, Teacher Sun kicked him away. Isn't that amazing?" Liu Sheng said with a beaming face. Suddenly, someone leaned close to Lin Jie's ear and whispered to Lin Jie: "Brother, is Teacher Sun really a Japanese spy? How did you conquer such a powerful Teacher Sun?"

"Nonsense, what do you mean by conquering? That's your elder brother's charm, okay? By the way, I told you to pay attention to other employees in the welfare home, and those children over thirteen or fourteen years old. Have you discovered anything?" When Lin Jie opened the factory, he asked Liu Sheng to plant some spies among the new children.

"Brother, apart from the male Chinese teacher I mentioned last time, there are no other new discoveries. As for the kids, only Tiezhu is a little more active. But he is Teacher Liu's man, so I can't control him too strictly. As long as he doesn't enter our core area, let him be. But brother, you should ask Teacher Liu to talk to him. He doesn't have enough experience, and some of his movements are too obvious and not professional enough. Otherwise, why don't you just tell Teacher Liu and let us help train him."

"Nonsense, how can you be Teacher Liu's person? Don't talk nonsense. Don't mention anything about Teacher Liu to anyone else in the future, not even Miss Ye. Do you understand?"

"I see. Big brother is actually the best to Teacher Liu. I know that, hehe."

"You know shit. I won't say any more. It's almost time. Let's go home and eat." Lin Jie looked at his watch.

"Brother, where are you going back to? Teacher Sun's house?"

"You're looking for a fight, right? When have I ever been to her house?"

Lin Jie got off work early today and it was not yet five o'clock when he got home. Unexpectedly, Ye Wulian was at home. When Liu Sheng saw that Lin Jie and Ye Wulian were speechless, he quickly kept her.

"Wulian, I'm back." Seeing that Liu Sheng ran away without keeping his word, Lin Jie could only say a meaningless greeting.

"Okay, I'm going to cook. You wash up first and we can eat soon." Ye Wulian turned and went into the kitchen.

After dinner, when everything was cleaned up, the two sat opposite each other.

"Shall we talk?"

Lin Jie and Ye Wulian spoke at the same time and laughed at the same time, finally breaking the silence that had lasted for several days.

"Wulian, you speak first." Lin Jie actually still didn't know how to start the conversation, so he could only retreat in order to advance.

Ye Wulian looked at Lin Jie and knew what he was thinking. If he was willing to give up Liu Haitang, he would definitely say it first. She sighed in her heart and then spoke softly: "Xiao Jie, are you and Teacher Liu together?" Ye Wulian seemed to have realized in the past few days that she could not live without Lin Jie. Even if she didn't want to, she had to accept Liu Haitang's existence.

"Yeah." Lin Jie nodded and said nothing.

"Then will you marry her?"

Lin Jie still nodded without saying anything. Ye Wulian's eyes were a little moist, but she tried hard to hold it back and maintain her stubbornness.

"Xiao Jie, I know you have been feeling depressed. I've joked with you before, just find another one out there. I won't blame you, as long as you don't bring her home. Since you and Teacher Liu are already together, I beg you this time, Xiao Jie, please don't bring her back, okay?" Ye Wulian couldn't help crying at the end.

The slight sobbing sound deeply hurt Lin Jie's heart. No matter how Ye Wulian came to him, she was the first person who cared about him since he came to this world, and the first person Lin Jie liked. Lin Jie stood up and sat beside Ye Wulian, hugged her gently, and was about to say something. Finally, he uttered "I'm sorry."

Just this one sentence made Ye Wulian no longer restrain herself and she lay on Lin Jie and cried loudly.

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After crying for ten minutes, Ye Wulian finally stopped. She took the handkerchief that Lin Jie had been holding out to her for a long time, wiped away her tears, and once again became the strong girl she was. Her emotions had been vented, and Ye Wulian now wanted to know when Lin Jie's heart began to leave her. It was obvious that the last time Lin Jie wanted to leave, he came back in the end.

"Xiao Jie, can you tell me about Teacher Liu? I want to know when you started." Ye Wulian looked at Lin Jie seriously, and that look did not allow Lin Jie to dodge. Lin Jie tried to recall for a long time before he began to talk about the fact that he and Liu Haitang had not had much contact.

"Wulian, I don't know either. Really, I don't need to lie to you at this time. Teacher Liu and I didn't have anything to do at the beginning, but..." Lin Jie didn't know how to describe how he and Liu Haitang got to where they are today. But looking at Ye Wulian's eyes, he had to continue.

"We just get along better. That's right. I feel more relaxed in the orphanage. I don't feel as intimidated as I did in No. 76. So I spend more time in the orphanage."

"It's easier than at home, isn't it?" Ye Wulian seemed to understand the reason. Ever since she joined the Military Control Commission, she has been living in fear every day. She introduced Lin Jie to No. 76 and later brought him into the Military Control Commission, so Lin Jie wanted to find a place where he could open his heart just like her. After getting married, home became the place where she could open her heart, but she never expected that her spiritual haven was the place where Lin Jie wanted to escape.

"Yeah, it's definitely easier there than at home." Lin Jie admitted that he had an easier time in the welfare home than at home.

"Then why did you come back to coax me?" Ye Wulian felt extremely bitter and unwilling.

"One day, I suddenly remembered that I hadn't had a good meal with you at home for a long time, so I remembered that we were actually very happy when we just got married, so I came back, thinking that we should still be the same as before." Lin Jie recalled that it was when he and Liu Qingshan first talked about the welfare home factory that his mind had changed a little, and he suddenly thought of going home to live his own life. So that day Lin Jie specially bought flowers and Ye Wulian's favorite cakes.

Hearing this, Ye Wulian's eyes became even more resentful, and the right side of her eye sockets turned red. She patted Lin Jie's shoulder and cried, "Why don't you insist? Why? My illness is almost healed, why can't you insist a little longer?"

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