Bai Lotian opened the door, pushed the door and walked in, changed his slippers, and prepared to drink two beers and relax.

At this time, the clock hands on the wall had just crossed two o'clock in the afternoon, and the man from the house opposite was busy drying clothes on the balcony, wearing an apron on his body, an absolutely peerless good man.

The phone on the table flickered and rang.

"Xiaobai, you've annoyed our leader. On the other end of the phone, there was the disappointed voice of the office director.

Director Niu's mournful cheeks appeared in front of Bai Letian's eyes, his face was pale, his eyebrows were lowered, and his voice was hoarse.

"Xiaobai, the leader broke his heart for you. Let me inform you that after discussion and decision at the director's office meeting: your salary this month will be used to pay for medical expenses, and the punishment for you is to apologize and stay on probation, continue to rest at home, and wait for the notice of resumption of work, and pay 80% of your salary. Director Niu continued.

"Thank you, leader. Bai Letian's words were as tasteless as white water, and he hung up his phone without waiting for Director Niu to speak again.

Bai Lotian slammed his phone on the table, "Let me apologize, let's dream." This kind of birdman, see once, hit once. He snorted.

Bai Lotian opened a can of Tsingtao beer, walked into the study while drinking, prepared to pack up his things, and rushed to the Handong Provincial Meteorological Observatory to visit Director Hu Chengfang.

Bai Lotian opened the wardrobe, rummaged up and down, and found a sauce-red rectangular oak box, and Professor Feng's two things happened to fit in.

Bai Lotian raised his head and drank the beer, threw the beer can into the trash, walked into the bathroom, let go of the cold water pipe, washed his face a few times, walked back to the bedroom, and changed into clean clothes.

He stuffed the box into a green tote bag, tucked the car keys into his pocket, closed the door and locked it, walked to the elevator, and pressed the next button.

Bai Letian's car drove out from the second basement floor along the ramp of the underground garage, and the security guard at the gate glanced at it and raised the landing lever at the gate.

On a spring afternoon, the wind and the sun are beautiful. He looked at his watch, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Jinning City was about a three-hour drive from Jinnan City, where the Handong Provincial Meteorological Observatory is located, and it was faster to take the highway.

The thought of leaving this depressed place soon, a gleam of pleasure flashed into his eyes. Bai Lotian patted the red wooden box resting on the passenger seat, stepped on the accelerator, and drove along Chongwen Avenue towards the highway, the westward sunlight shining through the sparse leaves and mottled shadows on Bai Letian's face.

Just when Bai Lotian had already seen the toll booth at the entrance of the expressway, the mobile phone on the platform under the windshield rang, he tapped the brake, held the steering wheel with his left hand, stretched out his right hand and got it in front of him, it turned out to be his mother's phone.

Bai Lotian hurriedly turned the steering wheel to the left, approached the shoulder of the road, stopped the car, pulled the handbrake, and connected the mobile phone.

"Rakuten, are you busy right now, and calling you won't delay your work, right?" said Mom.

"Not busy, Mom, what's the matter?" Bai Lotian smiled bitterly.

Bai Letian's home is in the mountain village at the foot of Shimen Mountain in Jinfu City, there are grandparents and younger brothers and sisters at home, a few acres of mountainous land are barren like bald hair, and his parents work all year round to support the family, and their lives are very hard.

"Don't be afraid, son. Today, when your father was in the mountain monastery, he fell off the shelf and broke his leg, and we were on our way to the People's Hospital. Mom's tone was very impatient, and I could hear extreme worry and fear.

"Mom, don't worry, I'll rush back immediately, everything is up to me. Bai Lotian patted the direction, so anxious that tears rolled in his eyes, he wiped his eyes and said.

"Your father won't let you tell you, saying that you're busy with work, and I'm really out of luck, son. Mom gasped.

"How's Daddy's doing? Is it serious?"

"My leg must be broken, I'm so worried. ”

"Okay, Mom, I got it. Bai Lotian didn't know how to comfort his mother, "Is the contractor here? ”

"It's your Uncle Zhang, but he has just contracted the project, and he doesn't have any money in his hand, so it's difficult for him. ”

Bai Lotian could hear the sobbing sound that his mother was trying to hide, and his tears flowed down the ground like spring water rushing down the mountain stream, "Mom, I'll go directly to the People's Hospital, I'll be there in the afternoon, and I'm already driving on the road." ”

"Be careful on the road, son. We are waiting for you. Mom said with a sigh.

When Bai Lotian deducted his mobile phone, he heard a long cry from his mother, which resounded in the car, and he felt very helpless.

In Bai Letian's memory, he was weak since he was a child, giving people a feeling of weakness, his friends often bullied him, and his parents suffered a lot to raise him. Especially during his schooling, no matter how difficult the family was, they insisted on providing him with education, so that later, because the family really had no money, his younger brothers and sisters dropped out of school, and his parents still gritted their teeth and let him continue to study until he finished his doctorate.

Bai Lotian sat quietly for two minutes, took out the tissues on the car, wiped the tears from his face, turned the head of the car, and drove towards an unrestricted country road leading to Jinfu City.