Dongmei walked around the compound, and when she returned home, she felt completely messy, and she didn't understand what the current children were thinking in their hearts, and they actually reported some majors that were not cleaned up and messy.

At this time, Wei Guo was squatting on the ground, racking his brains to find a school for English-related majors.

When he saw Dongmei coming back, he was overjoyed, and immediately stood up and said, "Dongmei, you're back, don't you know, after you left just now, in the face of a large number of schools and majors, I was so messy." ”

Dongmei didn't speak, just sat down on the sofa silently.

Wei Guo sat next to Dongmei, looked at her and said, "By the way, you went out to investigate, you didn't look at other people's children, what major did you choose?"

Dongmei pursed her mouth and said helplessly: "Hey, I'm messier than you." ”

Listening to Dongmei's words, Wei Guo looked at Dongmei suspiciously, and said, "What do you mean?"

Dongmei moved her neck, and her cervical spine was more comfortable, she said: "Compared with those children, the major chosen by our family Taotao is the most simple and easy to understand." ”

Hearing this, Wei Guo was stunned, and he said: "Isn't there any child who chooses normal majors, petroleum majors, and metallurgical majors......

Dongmei felt very uncomfortable in the cervical spine again, she said: "None of the children choose the normal major, everyone thinks that being a teacher is too hard......

Wei Guo couldn't believe it: "How good is the teacher's job, not only is it not exposed to the wind and rain, but also the summer and winter vacations in addition to the week, it is simply the most comfortable job in the world, these children are still tired, I really can't understand?"

Dongmei said: "The times are different, not only you can't understand it, but even I can't understand it." ”

Wei Guo continued: "Then there are no children, choose petroleum and metallurgical majors?"

Dongmei still moved her cervical spine and said, "No, not one." ”

Wei Guo said: "It seems that the majors I chose back then, if you put them now, are definitely unpopular majors." ”

Dongmei said: "That's not it, if you put you now, your dream of being a teacher is estimated to come true." ”

Wei Guo smiled and said: "Actually, I didn't become a teacher, but I became an oil worker, that's good, at least I have contributed a lifetime of oil to the motherland." ”

Dongmei moved her neck up and down, left and right, and said: "However, compared to the teacher, how hard oil work is, in addition to often working night shifts, you have to work in the heat of 40 degrees in the summer, and in the cold of minus 30 degrees in the winter, sometimes not only can you not take a bath, but also can't eat, it's really hard for a lifetime......

Although Dongmei was moved by what she said, Wei Guo smiled and passed by.

He said lightly: "I felt bitter at the time, but now that it has passed, I have forgotten the original suffering, after all, time has passed, let's take it another matter." ”

After speaking, Wei Guo covered his face with a smile, the wrinkles painted by the cold and heat, and the spots written by the wind, sand and rain.

Dongmei looked at the vicissitudes on Wei Guo's face, and she suddenly said: "Since Taotao has chosen English, then let him learn English, at least his future work will not be as hard as yours." ”

Hearing this, Wei Guo touched his face and said, "If Tao Tao chooses English, at least his skin in the future will not be as dark and rough as mine." ”

Dongmei knows that Wei Guo's parents are white, his brothers and sisters are also white, and Wei Guo was also white when he went to school, but since Wei Guo became an oil worker, his skin has not been white, nor has it been tender, from morning to night, all year round, it is black and rough.

There was even a time when Dongmei laughed at Wei Guo's face, which felt like sandpaper, and she could sharpen her knives and scissors.

And Wei Guo always jokingly said, men, the skin should be so smooth, what are you doing in vain, we shouldn't be white, don't rely on your face to eat.

Whenever this time, Dongmei would jokingly ask Wei Guo, saying: "Since you don't rely on your face to eat, then what do you rely on to eat." ”

And Wei Guo will answer Dongmei seriously, saying: "I eat with my own skills." ”

Wei Guo is a drilling and solid engineer, but he really has skills.

Under Dongmei's persuasion, Wei Guo also agreed to Taotao to learn English.

Because he thinks that if Taotao learns English, maybe in the future, Taotao can still be an English teacher.

Moreover, even if the English teacher in high school and junior high school can't be a teacher, let's be an elementary school English teacher, that's okay, at least every Saturday and Sunday, legal holidays, summer and winter vacations can rest, you can accompany your wife, take care of your children, unlike yourself, you choose to separate if you choose oil, not only do you not have Saturday and Sunday, winter and summer vacations, which are legal holidays, but also spend time in overtime.

And because of work, I live separately from my wife and children all the year round, not only can I not accompany my wife, but I am almost not involved in the growth and education of my children.

This is the biggest regret of Wei Guo's life.

All his life, Wei Guo was very envious of the kind of 9-to-5 work, envious that they could see their children after work, and they could go home and hug their wives after work.

However, this dream of defending the country has never been realized in his life.

When he was young, Wei Guo worked in the mountains, and sometimes he would secretly shed tears when he thought about how powerful Dongmei and the child were.

He often keeps photos of Dongmei and the children by his side, and whenever he thinks about it, he takes them out and looks at them.

Because there was no telephone, no network, and no very powerful social software such as WeChat in that era, Wei Guo couldn't hear his wife's voice, couldn't hear the sound of his children's babbling, and couldn't see his wife's face and the childish face of his children, and he could only go back once or twice after working for a year, so Wei Guo's entire youth was basically spent in loneliness and missing his wife and children.

And Dongmei's youth was almost the same as being a widow.

And the children's childhood is basically no different from not having a father.

In the face of these regrets, Wei Guo also regretted that he did not choose a job with his wife and children, so that he would have no regrets in his life.

But now, when Wei Guo is forty-six years old, he gradually figured out that life is unsatisfactory nine times out of ten, if there are no regrets in life, then it is not real life, but like Truman's world, everything is false and artificially manipulated.

At this time, Taotao pushed the door and walked in.

Dongmei and Wei Guo saw Taotao coming in, so they said in unison: "Child, you choose English, we support you." ”

Hearing that his parents supported him, Tao Tao jumped up happily, and he said, "Dad, Mom, I want to apply for the border university." ”

Wei Guo frowned and said, "What, Yan'an University?"

Dongmei pricked up her ears and said, "Is that the Yan'an University we have in northern Shaanxi?"

Hearing this, Tao Tao smiled and said, "You guys are really lonely, I'm talking about Yanbian University, not Yan'an University." ”

Dongmei and Wei Guo had never heard of this university, and Dongmei asked in surprise: "Where is this university, should it be abroad?"

Wei Guo was also stunned and didn't react, he said: "This university, shouldn't it be in a minority area in the south?"

Tao Tao laughed and said, "Yanbian University is in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Region, Jilin Province, where it teaches you not only English, but also Korean and Japanese." ”

After speaking, Tao Tao thought of Zhen Shanmei, the heroine of the Korean drama "The Temptation of Eve", which was so beautiful that it was suffocating.

Tao Taoxin said, maybe in the border university, you can meet such a beautiful Korean girl.