Reborn as a Tough Army Wife-Chapter 742 - 737: Encountering an Unexpected Person

Fang Xiu has saved up quite a bit of money since she started her shop. Originally, she also wanted to settle down in the city, and had been thinking about buying a house. However, since her situation with Zhou Guangsheng had not been finalized, she had not been in the mood to deal with anything else.

Now, everything had finally settled down, and Fang Xiu also saw why Granny Zhou had suddenly ceased causing such a fuss like before -- she had recognized the reality that for her son to have snagged a daughter-in-law like Fang Xiu was indeed a stroke of luck.

Therefore, to bring more peace of mind to Granny Zhou, Fang Xiu simply took out some money and bought a two-bedroom apartment in the city, which meant that no matter if Zhou Guangsheng was discharged from the army or whatever the case may be, his residency could be directly established in the city.

At that time, being able to set up residency in the city was quite significant, giving Granny Zhou absolutely nothing to complain about.

The apartment, though second-hand and not located in the best area, was conveniently close to her shop; owning property in the city truly meant she had settled down there.

As for Zhou Guangsheng, the army did not strictly order him to discharge immediately. There was the option to wait until the end of the year when new recruits joined before discussing his situation, but Zhou Guangsheng felt he could no longer contribute to the army, so he applied for an early discharge.

Having spent many years with excellent performance in the army and having won numerous medals, the army took good care of him upon his discharge and found him a job in the city—working at a small grain station.

Of course, at that time, even a small job in the city, albeit from a rural standpoint, was considered a state employment. But really, working at the grain station had no future prospects, and the salary was even less than what Zhou Xiaoyan used to earn working at Fang Xiu’s shop, not to mention it had little prestige.

If Zhou Guangsheng refused to work there, he would have to face the fate of being sent back to his hometown to farm for life.

However, Zhou Guangsheng himself was not keen on working at a place like the grain station, thinking it was just muddling along, and planned to resign completely once settled in order to seek opportunities elsewhere.

So if it really came to that, Zhou Guangsheng would likely have to rely on Fang Xiu to establish his residency in the city and settle down, which is why Granny Zhou dared not make waves anymore after confronting this situation.

Hence, the matter concerning Zhou Guangsheng and Fang Xiu was resolved.

In the blink of an eye, it’s been over a month since Fang Pingying’s family moved into the small villa. The villa was nice and the environment around it was pleasant. Although it was a bit far from the city center, it wasn’t much trouble as they had a car.

And the villa had a small yard and a garden, which brought immense joy to the kids who scampered around the yard every day, becoming much livelier.

Haohao, the little fellow, was originally planning to be brought back by Fang Xiu after she purchased her new house, but after getting used to playing with Yaoyao and Ruirui, he didn’t want to leave. From Fang Pingying’s point of view, she had never really treated Haohao as her own child and was quite willing to have him stay; thus the little guy just kept staying at Fang Pingying’s house.

Recently, with more space at home and Fang Pingying’s cooperation with the government, she was slowly starting to get her investments back. Additionally, since moving to the new place, Zhou Yunmei didn’t know their whereabouts, so she wouldn’t come to make trouble. More importantly, the relationship between Fang Pingying and her husband had completely thawed. The family had been living in harmony for a while.

If life could always go on like this, Fang Pingying felt that she would be willing to give anything for it. But it seemed that her life was destined not to be so plain. There were always some incidents stirring up excitement.

Moreover, before they moved, there were actually many unresolved issues; they were just put on hold.

Among them, the most important was the whereabouts of Luo Cuilan.

Originally, they thought if Xu He was involved in this matter, given that the police were watching Xu He every day, she would inevitably give herself away, but strangely, the Police Station watched Xu He for over a month and really found nothing suspicious.

In the end, even the Police Station said that Fang Pingying might have been mistaken, that it probably had nothing to do with Xu He, and they withdrew surveillance on Xu He.

Thus, no matter how suspicious Fang Pingying was of Xu He, it seemed there was no other way out; they could only hope that Luo Cuilan had just foolishly left on her own and hadn’t met with foul play by Xu He.

Yet, there is no paper that can wrap a fire. Just when Fang Pingying and her family felt helpless, Fang Pingying unexpectedly encountered someone and discovered an extremely surprising piece of information.

It was probably around two months after Fang Pingying moved when she and Luo Zhiyong were taking their car to work one day.

Usually, Luo Zhiyong drove the car when the family wanted to go out, but Luo Zhiyong disliked the ostentation of driving to work at the army unit, feeling it was not a great influence, and Fang Pingying needed the car for her commute, so it was better for her to drive to work.

However, since Fang Pingying had not learned to drive, they had no choice but to hire a driver to help her out.

The driver, introduced by Uncle Zeng, was named Hui Zi. He used to drive cargo trucks for Uncle Zeng’s factory, but after Hui Zi got married, his wife thought driving for the factory was too hard on him, working day and night without rest. She pulled strings with Uncle Zeng to find him an easier job, preferably driving for a family.

Seeing that Fang Pingying needed someone and Hui Zi was a trustworthy guy, Uncle Zeng introduced him to Fang Pingying.

On that day, Fang Pingying and Luo Zhiyong rode with Hui Zi to work, and as they passed by a neighborhood just below their villa, they saw an old lady holding a child with a woman walking by their side.

Hui Zi glanced outside at the two people and suddenly slowed the car down, asking Fang Pingying with a smile, "Sister Fang, my wife just passed by me. If you’re not in a hurry, may I get out to talk to her for a moment? She forgot to take her keys with her this morning when she went to work; I want to give them to her."

Fang Pingying was always lenient towards those working under her, and since it was still early, she quickly smiled and said, "Go ahead, we left early today and aren’t worried about being late."

"Alright," Hui Zi said and stopped the car to give his wife the keys.

Unexpectedly, Hui Zi’s wife also turned out to be someone who appreciated kindness and returned favors. Hearing that Fang Pingying and her husband were in the car, she insisted on following Hui Zi back to express gratitude to Fang Pingying.