Although she was a little hesitant, she couldn't bear to refuse the child's pitiful eyes, and Liu Cui finally hugged Li Ziyuan's daughter. The child hugged Liu Cui's neck and snuggled in Liu Cui's arms. The little face was very intoxicated and said: "Mom's body is so fragrant and soft, unlike Dad's body is always hard and hard." ”

"The baby misses his mother so much, can the mother not leave the baby. The baby never wants to be separated from the mother again, the baby doesn't want other children to have a mother, but the baby himself does not. Other children have mothers to hold, but the baby does not have a mother. Mom, dad teaches the baby to know a lot of words, and the baby can count a lot. ”

Listening to the attachment in the tone of the child in her arms, Liu Cui wanted to explain that she was not her mother, but saw Li Ziyuan's pleading expression. Coupled with the cute little face of the little girl in her arms, there are also children's words that tell about the longing for her mother and the desire for maternal love in her eyes.

Although I don't know what happened to the child's mother, she would leave such a lovely child behind. But Liu Cui finally couldn't bear to tell the child that she was not her mother. In addition to being a mother herself, Liu Cui is also a kind person.

The guards who were sent out by Li Ziyuan to cook came back with a few military lunch boxes, put the food on the table, and quickly retreated. Li Ziyuan pointed to the food on the table, then looked at his daughter who couldn't get down in Liu Cui's arms, and said with a wry smile: "Let's eat first, and wait until the rest of the meal is over." ”

As he spoke, he dragged Liu Cui's son to the dining table. Stuffed a big steamed bun into the hand of the boy who was still looking at him. He pointed to the braised pork in the lunch box and said to the child: "It is a man who dares to stand up to protect my mother in a dangerous situation, and my uncle admires you very much." ”

"But if you want to protect your mother, you have to raise your body first. Without a strong body, how can you beat the bad guys and protect your mother from being bullied by the bad guys? To be a man, you must first be a strong person. Eat quickly, and raise your body to be strong. ”

"Uncle is not a bad person and does not bully my mother. My uncle and mother have known each other for a few years, but they have been separated for too long and have not seen each other for a long time. My mother cried when she saw her uncle because of her joy after a long absence. Sometimes when a woman cries, it doesn't always mean that she has been bullied. ”

Although I was surrounded by the white-flour steamed buns and braised pork in front of me, my gluttonous saliva was about to flow down. I don't understand the words of the uncle in front of me. But the boy didn't do what Li Ziyuan said, but turned around and walked in front of his mother with a steamed bun.

looked at the little girl who refused to come down in her mother's arms, handed the steamed bun to her mother and said, "Mom, you eat this white-flour steamed bun first, and I will help you hold this little sister." You haven't eaten properly for a few days, you have given me and my aunt everything you can eat at home, and you haven't eaten much yourself. ”

This child is well educated, that is, sensible and kind, and quite sensible. When there is something delicious, the first thing that comes to mind is my mother. Instead of eating it yourself, you don't care if your parents still have food or not. This point is not seen in those little emperors in later generations.

Looking at this child's approach, Li Ziyuan admired it very much, but also felt a little sorry for Liu Cui. It can be seen that the two of them have not been happy in the past few years. When the child saw the white-flour steamed buns and braised pork, he saw the longing in his eyes. Obviously, I haven't eaten steamed buns and meat for a long time.

In fact, Li Ziyuan also knew that since the end of the Linfen Campaign, with the Jin Sui army, the territory controlled by the Jin Sui army was only a palm-sized place. There is a serious problem with the food supply in a big city like Taiyuan. The Battle of Jinzhong was the Jin Sui army in Taiyuan in order to go out of the city to grab grain, and they were annihilated in one fell swoop.

Now the People's Liberation Army is directly targeting the city of Taiyuan, compressing the Jin Sui army to an area of less than 15 square kilometers. Coupled with the desperate expansion of troops in order to defend Taiyuan, food has become a difficult problem for the Jin Sui army to solve. Taiyuan has an arsenal and fortifications of the city, but this arsenal can only produce guns, and he can't grow food.

The only food source in Taiyuan that can be relied on now is some grain that the front-line troops put in according to the order in order to relieve the people. But after all, this grain is a drop in the bucket, even if it is combined with Nanjing's air transportation regardless of the cost, it can only barely maintain people from starving to death.

Fortunately, the king of Shanxi still had a little conscience and did not kill the people to raise the army. In addition, most of the people have been arrested into the army, and the burden of civilian food is not so heavy. But even so, the common people can drink some gruel and barely survive. Although he knew that this situation could not last long, Li Ziyuan was still quite emotional.

Li Ziyuan, who was a little sad, hugged his extremely reluctant daughter back. dragged the boy back to the dining table and said to him, "Don't worry, uncle promises that today's braised pork and steamed buns are enough, and my mother will eat with us." And the uncle also promised you that it would be good to have meat to eat every day in the future. ”

It's just Li Ziyuan's persuasion that didn't convince the child. The child turned his head and looked at his mother again, and did not sit down at the table until she saw her nod. After setting up the chopsticks, I divided the millet porridge in another lunch box into four bowls. took Li Ziyuan's daughter to wash her hands before sitting down at the dinner table again.

Despite not eating meat and white flour for a long time, the child behaved quite well-mannered. When his mother didn't nod, no matter how fragrant the food was to him, he didn't take the initiative to serve it. And when eating, Li Ziyuan and his mother didn't move their chopsticks, he just waited on the side.

When eating, he didn't spit and swallow, but chewed slowly one by one. This child is really well educated, and Li Ziyuan can be said to have liked this child all of a sudden. even hoped for a time that this child was how good he and Liu Cui were.

No one spoke during the meal, even the youngest Li Ziyuan's daughter hung a small bib, sat there with a small bowl of egg soup, and was eating by herself with half a steamed bun in her little hand, without letting her father feed her. Li Ziyuan carefully removed the fat by himself and put the lean meat in his daughter's special small bowl.

It's just that her daughter was eating, but her eyes never moved away from Liu Cui's face. The eyes are full of longing for maternal love. Seeing that Li Ziyuan's daughter's eyes kept staying on herself, the eagerness revealed in her eyes made Liu Cui, who felt very sorry for this cute little girl, a little puzzled what was going on.

Until after eating, Li Ziyuan, who knew that Liu Cui must have something to ask him, said to his daughter: "Baby, go and see if Uncle Xue has eaten with Uncle Xue, okay." Dad taught you to love everyone around you. Uncle Xue took you over to accompany your father, and you have to protect your father every day, and you also have to care about him. ”

Hearing his father's words, the child nodded sensibly. It's just that after jumping off the stool, he turned his head and looked at his father cautiously and said, "Dad, Mom won't go anymore." When the baby comes back, can he still see his mother? If you can, baby tonight, can you let your mother hold me to sleep? Other children say that sleeping in their mother's arms is fragrant. ”

The daughter's words made Li Ziyuan's nose slightly sour, and after looking at Liu Cui, he nodded: "Dad promises, after the baby comes back, Mom will definitely be here." Tonight, if Mom is not tired, Dad agrees that you will sleep with Mom. However, you must also do what you promised your father. ”

Li Ziyuan's assurance made her daughter laugh happily. Dragged Liu Cui's son's hand to the outside of the house, and watched Uncle Ban, the guard who liked her, go to dinner. After the two children left, Liu Cui hesitated for a moment before saying, "What happened between you and the child's mother." Such a lovely child, how could her mother be willing not to see the child once. ”

"No matter what happens between the two of you, the child is innocent after all. I know you pay attention to the freedom of marriage, but no matter how free you are, this child belongs to both of you after all. You, who are husbands, can't be persuaded well. ”

Regarding Liu Cui's incomprehension, Li Ziyuan was silent for a long time before saying: "Her mother is one of our cadres, and she is an instructor who once fought side by side with me and worked in a team. The two of us got married in four or four years, and we had her in four or five years. In August of the previous year, when the child was just one year old, her mother died in a combat operation. ”

"My daughter was young, and I never told her the news. I told her that her mother had gone on a mission far away and that it would take a long time to return. As long as she is obedient, her mother will come back to see her. The child is very sensible and has never asked me for a mother. ”

"For the past two years, I've been taking her with me. When the troops moved, she followed the guards behind. When the battle is over, I'll go and get her to me. The child has lost his mother, and I don't want the child to be without a father's love again. I can't give my child a complete home, but I will do my best to give her a complete father's love. ”

Li Ziyuan's words made Liu Cui stunned, she had thought about what the mothers of many children would be like, but she didn't expect that the mothers of the children had actually sacrificed. After all, she is just an ordinary person, and she doesn't have much contact with this army, and she doesn't know much about the PLA.

looked at Li Ziyuan, who was not yet thirty years old after taking off his military hat, with half white hair. Liu Cui said faintly: "You have been taking the child with you like this, and you have never found another one?" The child is growing up day by day, and this kind of thing can be hidden from her for how long. No matter how deep your relationship with your wife is, children always need to be taken care of. ”

Facing his first love in this life, Li Ziyuan shook his head with a wry smile: "Her mother and I were together at that time, and we were busy fighting all day long with the troops. It's either anti-sweeping or anti-encroachment, and it's raining down all day long, and I haven't thought about talking about feelings before. ”

"Maybe it's a lot more to live and die together, I never thought we'd be together. At that time, I regarded him more as a comrade-in-arms who lived and died together. Besides, I was already with you at that time, and I only had you in my head, and I didn't think about anyone else. ”

"Later, she was transferred to work in the local area and became the magistrate of a county, and my troops were active in their county all the year round. I don't know when her mother liked me, but I didn't really have an idea at first. Then you disappeared, and I looked for you for two whole years, and I waited for you for two years. I couldn't find you, so I began to accept her feelings little by little.