Chapter 1067: Chapter 18: The Energetic Life Assistant
“Commander Wang! Hello!”
Nie Xiaoyun is an energetic girl, every time she sees Wang Yunxiao, she salutes and greets him loudly.
Except for the first meeting being a bit shy, there’s totally no sign of any ambiguous relationship.
Of course, there really isn’t any relationship, so don’t talk nonsense.
Some women treat matchmaking as if it’s dating.
But for her, matchmaking seems like a task assigned by her superior, it’s good if completed, and it’s fine if not.
This actually makes Wang Yunxiao a bit embarrassed.
Men, you know how it is.
They want this, that, and even more.
Gathering intelligence, especially that involving overseas, definitely takes some time.
During this time, Wang Yunxiao felt too embarrassed to just return to the school and laze around, so he just wandered around Compound No.2 to kill time.
Then his little life assistant appeared with a cheerful grin.
“Aren’t you working at the hospital? How come you’re over here?”
“I am working at the hospital, but comparatively speaking, of course the work here with Commander Wang is more important!”
Nie Xiaoyun responded loudly, “You’re a battle hero, personally recruited by the Marshal as special talent. My most important task now is to take care of your daily life and not let trivial matters affect your work!”
What work do I have, I’m just temporarily brought over to play detective…
Wang Yunxiao felt a bit of a headache.
Mainly feeling a bit flattered.
Is this the kind of treatment I should enjoy?
“You see, I’ve fully recovered now, a grown man with hands and feet, don’t need you to keep me company all the time.”
“Are you annoyed by me?”
“No.”
“As long as you’re not annoyed with me. It’s your first time at Compound No.2, right? How about I give you a tour?”
“Isn’t this a military restricted area? Can it be visited at leisure?”
“For outsiders, it’s a military restricted area, but you’re not an outsider.”
Well, that’s true…
Wang Yunxiao suddenly found himself not quite adapted to his new identity.
Outside Navy Compound No.2 is a military dock, with massive workshops neatly lined up on the pier, you can hear the welding and hammering sounds from inside through the walls.
Workshop after workshop is connected; if Wang Yunxiao wandered around on his own, he really couldn’t tell the Southeast from the Northwest.
“These workshops are newly built.”
Nie Xiaoyun walked beside him, explaining.
“With our current industrial capabilities, we can only build destroyers. The real large shipyards are over in Fusang; their development is decades ahead of ours, their industrial base is more complete, and I’ve heard they can already build battleships.”
Hmm…
Wang Yunxiao thought to himself, I’ve seen them, they’re quite impressive.
“Before these factories were built, we used to play here together.”
“Really?”
“I don’t remember either, it’s what my dad told me. He said I used to play hide and seek, ran over here, couldn’t find my way home, and cried in the woods. Later, you found me and took me home.”
“When was that?”
“About ten years ago.”
Nie Xiaoyun shook her head, lamenting, “What a pity my dad is so straightforward, he didn’t think much about it, otherwise perhaps he should have arranged a child betrothal or something then.”
Wang Yunxiao didn’t know how to respond to that.
The girls in the Navy Compound live up to their reputation.
“It’s hard to find a boyfriend now.”
Wang Yunxiao didn’t speak, but Nie Xiaoyun, a chatterbox, couldn’t stop chirping like a lark.
“It shouldn’t be, are there no men in the Navy Compound?”
Isn’t it said that those who make it on board are all high-quality unmarried young men?
“There’s no shortage of men, but good men are hard to find.”
Nie Xiaoyun sighed, “You don’t know these people, each one likes Fusang girls, who are obedient, gentle, and demure. Policy from above supports and encourages intermarriage, and those Fusang women would do anything to get an inland household registration…”
How shameless are they, I’m quite curious.
Wang Yunxiao felt a bit intrigued.
A few days ago, reading the newspaper, it mentioned the local customs in Fusang.
Truly intriguing… no, astonishing.
He learned from history textbooks about semi-feudal and semi-colonial states, but what semi-feudal and semi-slavery states looked like had to be glimpsed from reports on Fusang’s local customs.
Not to mention the comparison, but just the primitive state of the “principal family” culture in Fusang would be incomprehensible even to later generations’ legitimate and illegitimate deity cults.
Simply put, even in noble families, except for the eldest legitimate son, no blood relatives count as people, only as the eldest son’s slaves, to be used at will.
If it’s like that for a son, needless to say for a daughter.
Moreover, Fusang’s copper smelting industrial culture is ancient and profound.
It’s not about young girls having to get married at eleven or twelve years old.
But about having to start socializing at eleven or twelve.
This has nothing much to do with international trends or social environment—it’s a part of their ancestral cultural customs.
It’s recorded historically, not fabricated.
“Do you have thoughts as well?”
Nie Xiaoyun watched the expressions on Wang Yunxiao’s face and couldn’t help but purse her lips.
“Don’t blame me for not warning you, fooling around can lead to venereal diseases, every year in our hospital…”
“Can we talk about something normal?”
Wang Yunxiao was almost losing it.
It’s not that I don’t want to talk, I just don’t want to talk about this with you.
So awkward.
“This is a legitimate topic.”
Nie Xiaoyun said earnestly, “The Navy is indeed quite chaotic, you’re about to go to the Naval Academy for studies, there are some foreign instructors there who aren’t good people. Do you remember Xu Dazhuang, we played together when we were kids? He used to be a decent person, good at studies, but after getting on the ship, he changed completely, mastering eating, drinking, whoring, and gambling, even his engagement back home fell through.”
Is it really that exaggerated?
Wang Yunxiao quickly declared seriously, “I’m already engaged.”
“Oh, I know.”
Nie Xiaoyun snorted lightly.
“Good men are in demand, they don’t stay available for long, humph.”
“When is she moving over? I’ve already tidied up the living place for you two. Here are the keys.”
She pulled out a set of keys from her pocket and handed them to Wang Yunxiao.
“You’re not leaving tonight, right? I’ll take you to familiarize yourself.”
“Thank you.”
“No need to be so polite, this is my job after all.”
Nie Xiaoyun’s eyes flickered, asking quietly, “When your fiancée comes, will her maid be staying too? I haven’t prepared that many beds for you, but if it’s a chamber maid…”
“No.”
No household lets a chamber maid share the same bed with the master…
Of course, that’s not the point.
But this did make Wang Yunxiao think of another issue.
Does Li Mumu really have the ability to take care of herself?
With that delicate demeanor, can she really handle hard chores?
Thinking of this, he subconsciously looked at the life assistant beside him.
Nie Xiaoyun winked, nodding vigorously, “I can do it.”
“What can you do?”
“I can wash your underwear.”
“No need!”