At the military's group wedding, my best friend and I swapped husbands.

Chapter 113 Sleeping with my wife in my arms, it smells so good!

Lin Weiwei felt her face burning with embarrassment at his words and pushed his chest forcefully: "What nonsense are you spouting! Let go right now, I have something serious to say to Wanwan!"

"What serious things do you have to say so late at night?" Bai Si'an not only didn't loosen his grip, but tightened his arms around her, rubbing his chin against the top of her head. "Can't we say them during the day? I only have these two days."

His voice lowered, becoming somewhat irritating, a stark contrast to his usual calm and collected demeanor as a technician.

Lin Weiwei felt a tickle on her neck from his rubbing, and her heart softened a little, but she still hardened her voice: "Tonight! I haven't seen Wanwan for two days, and I miss her terribly. You sleep by yourself, we'll talk about it tomorrow night... tomorrow night."

"No," Bai Si'an refused decisively, breathing into her ear, "I can't sleep without you."

"Didn't you always sleep alone?"

"The past is the past," Bai Si'an said matter-of-factly, nuzzling Lin Weiwei with his head. "Now I'm someone who's slept with my wife, I've tasted the sweetness, there's no going back."

Lin Weiwei was both amused and exasperated by his twisted logic, and forcefully broke free from him: "Stop with that! Stop acting all cute and charming! Let go, I'm going over there!"

Seeing that she was really leaving, Bai Si'an loosened his grip, but his eyes followed her: "Lin Weiwei, are you really leaving?"

"Really leaving!" Lin Weiwei picked up her pillow and headed to the next room without looking back. "Sleep by yourself! Don't follow me!"

The door slammed shut. Bai Si'an stood there, staring at the door for a few seconds, then turned and went back into the room, collapsing onto the bed and pulling the blanket over his head.

Two seconds later, he threw off the covers, sat up, stared at the empty bedside for a while, and suddenly raised his hand and punched the bed board twice.

"Thump, thump".

The muffled sound was particularly clear in the quiet room.

He collapsed back as if deflated, stared at the roof beam for a long time, then suddenly sat up, grabbed his pillow, got out of bed, and shuffled out in his slippers.

The light was still on in Bai Rongbei's house.

Baisian didn't even knock; he just pushed the door open and went in.

Bai Rongbei was sitting on the edge of the bed cleaning his gun when he heard the noise. He looked up and saw Bai Si'an standing in the doorway with a pillow in his arms. He frowned and asked, "What's wrong?"

Bai Si'an walked straight to the bedside, threw the pillow next to Bai Rongbei, took off his shoes, got into bed, and lay down under the covers.

Bai Rongbei put down the gun cloth in his hand and looked at him.

Bai Si'an lay stiffly, his eyes fixed on the roof beam, his voice muffled: "Your wife stole my wife away."

Bai Rongbei: "..."

"I can't sleep well." Bai Si'an turned to face Bai Rongbei, his face full of self-righteous resentment, "Come here and I'll make sure you can't sleep well either."

Bai Rongbei remained silent for a few seconds, placed the cleaned gun on the table beside him, blew out the kerosene lamp, and lay down as well.

The room grew dark, with only a sliver of moonlight filtering in from the window.

After a moment of silence, Bai Si'an suddenly spoke again: "Brother."

"Um."

"Sleeping next to your wife, isn't that nice?"

Bai Rongbei remained silent.

Bai Si'an seemed not to need his reply, and continued, "Soft, warm, and fragrant. You can reach out and hug it, and sleep soundly."

He clicked his tongue in the darkness, his voice laced with a hint of arrogance: "Oh, I forgot, you've never slept next to your sister-in-law, you wouldn't understand."

Bai Rongbei: ...

I wouldn't mind crippling another one of your legs...

Bai Rongbei did not respond.

He thought to himself, "How could I not understand?"

That night in the Gobi Desert, Su Wanwan curled up in his arms, her body soft and cold. He held her close, warming her up little by little.

Later she fell asleep, her breathing soft and gentle, tickling his neck.

That was the deepest and most peaceful sleep he had had in all these years.

Bai Si'an muttered to himself, "...So tell me, isn't Lin Weiwei heartless? She abandoned me after only two days..."

Bai Rongbei turned over, his back to him: "Go to sleep."

Bai Si'an: "Oh."

……

In the other room, Lin Weiwei hugged her pillow and snuggled into Su Wanwan's bed.

Su Wanwan moved over to make room for her: "Have you appeased her?"

"Who's going to comfort him!" Lin Weiwei arranged the pillows, lay down, and said, "Let him go to sleep by himself."

Su Wanwan smiled and said, "I think Technician Bai is quite reluctant to see you go."

"He was..." Lin Weiwei started to say, then laughed at herself, "Never mind, let's not talk about him. Let's talk."

The two lay side by side, the window was slightly ajar, and the night breeze blew in, cool and refreshing.

"Wanwan," Lin Weiwei turned to the side, "don't you think we should do something?"

"What are you doing?"

"Look at Anar today," Lin Weiwei said in a low voice. "She's already sixteen or seventeen, and she thinks she's going to die when she gets her period. Uncle Uliji is a good man, but what do grown men know about these things? There must be a lot of girls in the village and the family compound who are just like her, who don't know anything and panic when they get their period, using unclean things to pad their breasts, which makes them prone to getting sick."

Su Wanwan nodded: "Yes. When I was at home, my mother would teach me, but it's different here. Many girls don't have female elders at home, or the adults themselves are confused."

"So I was thinking," Lin Weiwei's eyes shone brightly in the darkness, "that we might... try to talk to them? Especially the little girls, they need to know that this isn't shameful, it's normal. Also, we need to teach them how to handle it, using clean things."

"What do you plan to do?" Su Wanwan asked, "Go and talk to them one by one?"

"That's too slow." Lin Weiwei thought for a moment. "It would be best to have a centralized place, like a school? Or a women's literacy class? We can go and talk about it, and teach how to make sanitary napkins while we're at it. The one that Bai Sian improved, although the materials are hard to get, we can teach the basic method. Using clean cloth and cotton is better than wood ash."

Su Wanwan thought it made sense: "Okay. But this can't be rushed, we need to find an opportunity first. Tomorrow we'll go for a walk around the school area and see what's going on."

"Mmm," Lin Weiwei responded, yawning. "Go to sleep, we'll talk about it tomorrow."

The two whispered a few more words, then gradually fell silent, their breathing becoming even.

Moonlight streamed onto the bed, where two girls slept soundly, their heads touching.

The next day, the two slept until noon.

When I opened my eyes, the sunlight was already shining brightly into the room, casting bright spots of light on the floor.

Lin Weiwei got up first, rubbing her eyes: "My God, what time is it?"

Su Wanwan touched the small alarm clock on the bedside table and glanced at it: "11:30."

"No wonder I'm so hungry." Lin Weiwei got out of bed. "Let's go see if they left us any food."

After the two finished washing up, they went to the kitchen and found millet porridge and steamed buns warming in the pot, along with a small dish of pickled vegetables.

"There's still rice in the pot, that's great." Lin Weiwei ladled out a bowl of porridge and handed it to Su Wanwan.

The two sat on small stools in the courtyard, drinking porridge with pickled vegetables.

The afternoon sun in the Gobi Desert is scorching, but sitting in the shade under the eaves, with the wind blowing, it's quite cool.

After dinner, Su Wanwan washed the dishes, and Lin Weiwei tidied up the house.

"Let's go," Lin Weiwei picked up a small cloth bag, "Let's take a walk around the school area."