After this month's allowance was paid, Li Changpu went to the post office to remit money as he did in the past. The only difference was that this time he only sent ten yuan to his hometown, and sent the same amount to his sister as before. He also attached a letter to tell his family that he was married and that the subsidy to his hometown would be changed to ten yuan per month.

He didn't care about this before, as long as he had enough to eat and use, so he just ignored the requests from his hometown. But now, every time he opens the drawer where he keeps the money at home, he feels that the bag containing the money is only pitifully thin. He feels a little annoyed that he hasn't saved more money over the years.

After returning home, he put the money in the drawer in front of Jiang Tingxia and said, "This is the allowance for this month."

Jiang Tingxia nodded faintly to indicate that she understood. In her opinion, Li Changpu's action was unnecessary, because she didn't care how much money he brought back, she wouldn't spend it anyway, and it wasn't for any other reason, but this place was so remote that there was no place to spend lavishly. She was originally worried that her small treasury of more than 300 yuan would not be enough to spend, but who knew that more than a month had passed, and she was only occasionally taken by Zhang Hongxiang to the homes of nearby villagers to secretly exchange some common things such as duck eggs and goose eggs. However, she didn't have to worry about the food, clothing, housing and transportation at home, because Li Changpu bought them back. So these days she took a "huge sum of money" but spent less than five yuan.

Jiang Tingxia didn't know that money could be spent so sparingly. In the past, three hundred yuan was just the price of a few dresses and stockings.

Li Changpu added, "I sent thirty yuan to my family and my sister, and the rest of the money is here."

Jiang Tingxia didn't care about these. After hearing what he said, he shook his hands and replied, "You can decide these by yourself. You don't need to explain to me."

From Jiang Tingxia's perspective, having grown up in an environment that was influenced by her, she knows very well that a huge amount of wealth is tempting enough, so it can only belong to herself and cannot be shared with anyone, especially the person next to her. Therefore, it is normal for the wife and husband to manage their own assets separately.

Li Changpu's view on marriage is the most traditional one. He believes that marriage is family and family members are inseparable. Jiang Tingxia's eager avoidance of what he said made her look like a fake couple with cold and distant feelings in his eyes.

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Zhao Yong answered a phone call, listened to a few words on the other end, and then hurried off to find Li Changpu.

He stopped Li Changpu in the corridor and said hurriedly, "Old Li, Xiao Chen from the hospital called and said someone from Zhang Ming's family came."

Li Changpu thought for a moment and said, "Zhang Ming was injured and wrote a letter to his family. His family should be here by now."

Zhao Yong ran out of breath, holding the railing and explaining, "No, his mother and eldest sister didn't have time to go to see Zhang Ming. They came straight to the family quarters after getting off the train, and they specifically asked for you."

Zhao Yong said anxiously, "Is it because Zhang Ming was injured that their family is having a quarrel and want to cause trouble for you?"

There was a knock on the door outside the courtyard. Jiang Tingxia walked out and opened it. There were three women outside. They were wearing wrinkled clothes with several patches on them. One of them looked particularly old, probably in her seventies, and the other two were younger. Especially one of the young women was tall and strong, very eye-catching.

Before Jiang Tingxia could speak, the old woman said, "Is this Captain Li's home?"

Jiang Tingxia nodded, "Yes."

Seeing Jiang Tingxia's wary expression, the old woman introduced herself, "We are Zhang Ming's family."

Zhang Ming, Jiang Tingxia remembered this name. Wasn't he the young soldier who was most seriously injured during the school repair? What did his family want to do when they came to Li Changpu's house? Were they looking for an explanation from Li Changpu? Or did they want him to take responsibility for Zhang Ming's injury? To pay compensation? To cause trouble?

Jiang Tingxia said with a cold face, "He is not at home now." After saying that, he wanted to close the door.

The old woman smiled, and the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes became more obvious. "You are Captain Li's family, right? Oh, this is the first time I have seen such a beautiful daughter-in-law in all my years. She looks like a fairy from heaven."

Jiang Tingxia paused in closing the door and looked at the old woman who was talking. In fact, if he looked closely, he could see that she was an old woman with a kind face and should not be the kind of person who would cause trouble for no reason.

Her expression softened a bit, and she asked the old woman, "What do you want from him?"

Jiang Tingxia understood that among these three people, the old woman was the central figure.

Just as the old woman was about to speak, she heard footsteps. She looked and saw Li Changpu and Zhao Yong coming towards her.

The two of them wanted to go and see what was going on, but they saw that Zhang Ming's family had already been let in at the sentry box. Zhao Yong shouted that something was wrong and thought that they must have gone directly to Li Changpu's house. The two hurried back and saw Zhang Ming's mother and sister.

When Zhang Mingniang saw Li Changpu, she immediately rushed over with tears in her eyes, "Captain Li, you saved my Zhang Ming's life. I really don't know how to thank you."

Zhang Mingniang took a few steps and was about to kneel down in front of Li Changpu. The two women she brought with her also knelt down without saying a word. Li Changpu quickly stopped Zhang Mingniang, who was closest to him, and said, "Auntie, don't dare."

Zhao Yong also went to help the other two women up.

Zhang Mingniang stood up, and the two women followed suit.

Zhang Mingniang was supported by Li Changpu. She stood limply as if she had lost her strength. She cried and said, "Zhang Ming wrote to us and said that if you hadn't gone to Kyoto to invite experts to treat him, he would have died. You are his lifesaver and my family's great benefactor."

Li Changpu tried his best to support the old man, "Don't thank me, Zhang Ming is my soldier, I should be responsible for him."

Jiang Tingxia had never seen such a scene before, so she stood inside the door and watched from afar.

The three women cried together and finally stopped crying after talking for a long time.

Li Changpu led them into the house. Jiang Tingxia stood by the door, nodding and smiling.

Zhang Mingniang glanced at Jiang Tingxia and said, "Your aunt hasn't congratulated you on your marriage yet." After saying that, she untied her belt and slowly turned her trousers open. There was a seam in the trousers, which she tore open and took out a red paper package.

Li Changpu pushed the money back and said, "It's just a token of my appreciation. I can't accept it." He then waved his hand to signal Jiang Tingxia to stand beside him and introduced her, "Auntie, this is my husband, Jiang Tingxia."

Zhang Mingniang smiled and said, "They are a perfect match, how nice."

After saying that, she was about to stuff the red envelope into Jiang Tingxia's hand. Jiang Tingxia immediately hid behind Li Changpu. When she took out the red envelope just now, Jiang Tingxia couldn't believe her eyes, not to mention that she was going to put something she took out from her personal area in her hand. Jiang Tingxia definitely didn't want to touch it, so she dodged at an extremely fast speed.

Jiang Tingxia said politely, "Auntie, we can't accept this, you should take it back."

Seeing that the two were determined not to take the money, Zhang Mingniang could only take the money back helplessly, and then asked the two young women to bring two bundles over, "These are seafood dried at home, salted fish and shrimps, etc., not valuable, I brought them to you to have a fresh taste. If you say you don't want this again, I will be really angry. We carried it all the way here from our hometown. If you don't want it, you will waste our kindness."

Li Changpu thought about it and accepted it, "Thank you, Auntie."

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