Everyone looked on and understood. These newcomers were all Dingzi's comrades from the army, here to attend the wedding. Someone started calling for them to take their seats.
Once the soldiers sat down, the tables were perfectly full.
"You little brat, you didn't say a word beforehand! You scared me to death! I thought they were here to cause trouble."
Grandma Dingzi lightly slapped Li Zhi on the shoulder, but her eyes were red. When Dingzi first came back from the army, he wasn't assigned a job. The neighbors gossiped endlessly, saying he must have gotten into trouble and been kicked out. Dingzi looked for work for a whole month without finding anything. He was finally about to become a police officer, but someone else took his spot. No one knew how much she suffered, or how many times she cried in private.
