Breaking Off the Engagement? The Fierce Village Girl Goes Wild in the Military District

[Military marriage in the 1970s] [No System] [Violent little girl] [Ancient medicine and metaphysics] [Sweet romance]

Jiang Xiaoman grew up deep in the mountains with an eccentric master of ancient medicine. Now she was heading down the mountain to find her husband, carrying an enormous herb basket on her back and chewing on the long-stemmed pipe her grandfather had left her!

When she arrived at the military compound, Regiment Commander Lu furrowed his brow and tossed her five hundred yuan. “I don’t believe in arranged marriages. Take the money and go back to the mountains.”

Everyone laughed, sure that the sallow, skinny country girl was about to be kicked out.

But then

In the cafeteria, a hotheaded soldier cut the line and started making a scene. She lifted him with one hand and sent him crashing through the door. “Amitabha, please wait your turn.”

On the training field, the reconnaissance company was exhausted from its obstacle run, but she easily overtook them with two hundred jin of pigweed on her back. “Too slow. At this pace, back in the mountains you’d only be good enough to feed the wolves.”

The commander’s wife had a chronic illness that Western medicine couldn’t treat. Jiang Xiaoman pulled out a handful of soot from the bottom of a cooking pot. “Drink this. You’ll be right as rain.”

By the time the whole military compound had been thoroughly won over by this “country girl,” Regiment Commander Lu was staring at the reinforced sandbag she had kicked in half, deep in thought.

That night, Regiment Commander Lu blocked the doorway. “Honey, I used that five hundred yuan to buy a washboard. Can I come home and sleep tonight?”

Jiang Xiaoman innocently pulled out a silver needle. “Are you sick? One prick and you’ll be fine.”