[Era + Military Marriage + Interracial Love + Capibaka's Growth Story]
"Report to the political commissar," he said, "I will report love."
The whole company thought the company commander was crazy - marrying a girl of unknown origin, who couldn't laugh and talked to water and animals all day long. The wedding was very simple. It was held in the company canteen. Luosang wore a red sweater, which Shen Shuzhou asked someone to buy from the county town. She didn't understand the ceremony very well. She bowed when others asked her to, and shouted softly to the photos of Shen Shuzhou's parents who died young when asked to call her parents.
At night, Shen Shuzhou gave her the only bed and made the floor himself. In the darkness, she suddenly spoke: "Shen Shuzhou."
"Huh?"
"What does getting married mean?"
He turned sideways and saw her eyes open under the moonlight, her amber pupils reflecting the stars outside the window.
"It means," he paused, "I will protect you from now on."
She was silent for a long time and said softly: "The water also protects you."
Shen Shuzhou's military ID card always contained a strange scale - pale gold, water ripples, and cold to the touch.
It was brought back by his wife one time when she "went back to her parents' home" (that's what she called her trip to Qinghai Lake). She said: This is the betrothal gift, from the Capybara tribe.
[When the youngest border guard company commander married the oldest river creature, when the red paper of military marriage overshadowed the taboos of non-my race, this is a border past story about protection and contract, border and integration, and how a marriage certificate binds two worlds. ]
