At this time, Taotao had just returned to the dormitory after work.

He felt that he was about to collapse from exhaustion, and he really wanted to fall into bed and sleep in the dark.

However, as soon as he took off his clothes and went to bed, his mother called.

Tao Tao took out the phone from the pocket of his dirty overalls, picked it up and said, "Mom." ”

However, the voice of Dongmei heard by Tao Tao was: "Tao ...... Return...... Shop ......"

Intermittently and can't hear anything clearly.

Tao Tao simply lay on the bed, put the phone to the window, and plugged in the headphones.

That way, at least the phone is a little closer to the outside.

However, the signal is still not good.

Tao Tao hung up the phone.

He put on his clothes, didn't go outside on the sand dunes, found a vantage point, or a place with a good signal, and called his mother back.

So, Tao Tao began to get dressed.

Lao Qu, who had already taken off and slept on the bed, looked at Taotao and said, "Zhao Bo and I are ready to sleep, what are you going out for, don't come back later, affect our sleep?"

Tao Tao said embarrassedly: "Master Qu, my mother's phone, the signal in the house is not good, I'll go out to answer the phone." ”

Zhao Bo, who was sleeping next to him, saw that Taotao was going out to find a signal, he pointed to a rope that fell from the roof, and said, "Tie your mobile phone to that rope, and the signal will be fine." ”

Tao Tao saw that Lao Qu's mobile phone was tied to the rope that fell from the ceiling.

Tao Tao looked at the rope curiously and said, "Zhao Bo, is there an antenna on this rope?"

Zhao Bo laughed and said, "Taotao, you are really a nerd, let me tell you, in our tin house, only that point has a signal, and only when you put your mobile phone there, the signal is good, listen to me, that's right." ”

Lao Qu explained, saying: "You are new here, you don't know, every time we move to a place, we will first look for a signal in the house.

If you find a good signal, immediately draw a rope down from the roof and tie your phone there.

In this way, when the family calls, they will not miss the call, or the signal will not be good. ”

Hearing this, Taotao finally understood.

He was also curious before, why Lao Qu and Zhao Bo didn't put their mobile phones on the head of the bed, but always hung on a rope, it turned out to be like this.

Tao Tao was skeptical, followed the example of the two, and hung his mobile phone on the rope.

Suddenly, before Taotao could bolt his mobile phone tightly, Dongmei's call came in again.

Tao Tao quickly picked up the phone and said, "Mom, is that you?"

Dongmei finally heard her son's voice clearly.

She said worriedly: "Son, this will signal well, you must be outside, is it cold outside?"

Wei Guo said beside him: "In the Sulige Desert, there is only a signal on the high sand dunes, you don't understand, the child will definitely stay outside, let's make a long story short, don't let the child freeze." ”

Tao Tao heard the words of his mother and father, and apparently they had turned their phones on hands-free.

Tao Tao hurriedly said: "Mom, I'm in the house, the signal here is okay, you speak slowly, don't worry." ”

Hearing that his son was in the camping house, Wei Guo said in surprise next to him: "It's strange, in the Sulige Desert, in the camping house, is there also a signal?"

Dongmei asked worriedly: "Son, you must have frozen last night, are you okay, does it matter?"

At this time, Tao Tao was in the warm camping house.

They turned on the electric heater to the hottest, and the whole house was warm and comfortable.

Tao Tao was wearing shorts and short sleeves, he recalled the painful experience of last night, and said: "Hey, last night, I really almost froze to death, but this will be fine, the house is very warm inside." ”

Hearing that the child was fine, Dongmei breathed a sigh of relief, she said: "It's okay, your father and I are relieved, we called you here, we have to ask you a question, you have to answer us honestly." ”

Tao Tao didn't know what questions his mother and father were going to ask him, he said, "What questions, you can say it." ”

Dongmei said solemnly on the phone: "Taotao, your father wants you to come back to open a store, and he doesn't want you to do it anymore, are you willing to come back?"

Hearing this, Tao Tao was stupid, and he didn't know how to answer.

Although he was in tears last night, complaining to his mother that he couldn't stand it anymore and was about to freeze to death.

But at this moment, staying in the warm camping house, Taotao seems to have healed his scars and forgotten the pain.

He hesitated and said, "Open a store, what kind of store?"

Wei Guo is in his heart, and he has already planned for Taotao.

He said: "It's in the alley where we go out at the back door of the bright garden, and we will rent you a ten-square-meter house and open a small shop to sell goods." ”

Tao Tao never thought that he would work as a store owner.

He was surprised and said, "Mom, Dad, why did you let me open a store?"

Dongmei rushed in front of Wei Guo and said: "Your father thinks the drilling team is working too hard, and he wants to open a shop for you, so that at least you won't suffer in the desert of Inner Mongolia." ”

Hearing this, Tao Tao didn't understand.

In his heart, he always felt that his father was an old oil man, an oil man who worked on the front line of oil and fought all his life.

It stands to reason that he should firmly let himself work on the front line, no matter how hard, tired, or dangerous it is?

But now, why is it that my father is the first to retreat?

Instead of the mother letting herself go back first?

However, what Tao Tao didn't know was that although Wei Guo was an old oil man, he was an oil man who had worked on the front line all his life and endured all the hardships.

But when facing his son, his own flesh and blood, he is indeed an ordinary father, an ordinary oil man.

He wants his son to live a good life, he wants his son to be free from sin, he wants his son not to suffer, that's all.

Wei Guo was beside him, and when he heard Tao Tao not speaking for a long time, he said: "Tao Tao, I know that you are in the desert, the working environment is harsh, the drilling work is hard, and the life is hard, so I want you to come back, be an ordinary person, be a normal life, work from 9 to 5, don't have to stay up late, don't have to be cold, don't have to suffer hardship, what do you think?"

Tao Tao listened to his father's words, he really didn't expect that the person who opposed him being an oil worker turned out to be his father who had been an oil man all his life.

While he was surprised, he also felt unbelievable and said, "Dad, do I really have to give up this job and come back to be a shopkeeper?"

In Tao Tao's eyes, although he is a college student in the new era, he is still imprisoned by traditional ideas and bound by the traditional concepts of Northwest people.

A man can only work in a fixed unit, a unit with an establishment, or a state-owned enterprise, then it is called work, and that is called work.

Otherwise, all other jobs cannot be called jobs, but can only be called part-time jobs.