Towards the end of the year, Chen Xuan worked overtime more and more frequently, and he arrived home late every day.

Chen Xuan, who is mainly responsible for safety management, entered a Fortune 500 state-owned enterprise after graduating from a second-rate university in the imperial capital eleven years ago. The work is a little busy, but except for occasional business trips, meetings, and training, there are few overtime hours at ordinary times, and every day I step into the house on time at half past six, and a family of three sits around for dinner at seven o'clock. Su Xia was satisfied with this relaxed, regular, and orderly state of life. Pyrotechnics is the warmth of a home.

At the end of the year, Su Xia suddenly became busy, Su Xia expressed his understanding and full belief that Su Xia was also in the end of the year at that time, and naturally had no time to take care of Chen Xuan.

Su Xia works in the organization and propaganda department of a state-owned enterprise, mainly responsible for ideological and political and corporate propaganda. The department leader's name is Lu Yan, who is at the department level and is 43 years old this year. He is not tall, dressed plainly, but his daily makeup is very delicate, and his skin is fair, so he looks a few years younger than his actual age. I got divorced a few years ago, I have a teenage daughter, I just got married after my second marriage last year, and I am pregnant with my second child this year. Because she is an advanced maternal age and a second marriage, it is really rare to have a child, so she applied for fetal protection leave after four months of pregnancy. The leader was also sympathetic and approved.

Su Xia's department has an establishment of five people, but there are only four people at present, and in addition to Lu Yan and Su Xia, there are two young employees. One is named Yu Xiaoman, born in 85, a typical rich second generation, and his father is a big real estate developer. The heart is straightforward, the mind is simple, and the ability to work is extremely simple, and can even be ignored as zero. The daily work is mainly responsible for some trivial chores, such as simple item purchases, transmitting documents, etc., and driving a Mercedes-Benz S that does not match her age to run around to fill tolerance. Su Xia can't talk about how much she likes or dislikes her, after all, her work ability is really limited, but she is better than she is pure-hearted, and she doesn't fight or grab anything, which has become a powerful weight to shorten the distance between her and her colleagues in the workplace of deceit, open and secret fighting.

Another is Qian Feng, a post-90s boy, a returnee who just graduated from work last year, tall and thin, with a pair of black-framed glasses on his face left by acne, which looks very Sven. The university major is Chinese studies, and if you are abroad, you should be far ahead in the professional courses. When I first arrived at the unit, I called my brother and sister when I met people, and my attitude was very humble, my working hours were still short, my business level was average, and my reputation was good.

Su Xia's unit is mostly the children of workers, which is strange to say, most of the children of workers choose to study abroad, and then come back after graduation to continue to "inherit their father's business". The cost of studying abroad is 1.8 million yuan, not to mention that those who have been out since they were young or have a high level of consumption in developed countries, but they come back and earn a salary of several thousand a month, which is really unpredictable.

The section chief took a long maternity leave to protect the fetus, and Su Xia, as the deputy section, was appointed as the head of the department to preside over the work. Originally, there were few people in the department and they were overwhelmed, and as the Spring Festival approached, various meetings and year-end summaries came one after another, and Su Xia was busy every day. Who let the pursuit want to progress, "If you want to wear its crown, you must bear its weight; If you want to enjoy its countenance, you must bear its pain. Su Xia anesthetized herself in the midst of a thousand things.

In addition to being busy with various tasks on weekdays, Su Xia has to rush to the kindergarten out of breath every day to ensure the pick-up and drop-off of her son Xibao. Son Xibao is 5 years old, his name is Chen Hanyu, he goes to kindergarten and is a clever ghost with big eyes. There is a time difference of exactly 20 minutes between Su Xia's commuting time and Xibao Kindergarten pick-up time every day, and by the way, Su Xia and these 20 minutes race against time every working day.

After work, play with Xibao, play with children, dinner, take a bath, etc., and after being busy, it is time to go to bed at night. It turned out that even if Chen Xuan worked overtime, he was only one or two hours late when he got home, so that he could play with Xibao for a while at night, and Su Xia took the time to do housework, but gradually Chen Xuan went home later and later, one hour, two hours, three hours late......

The phone rings.

"Mom, phone!" Xibao, who was building Lego alone in the living room, heard Su Xia's mobile phone ringing and shouted at Su Xia, who was preparing dinner in the kitchen. The sound of the range hood was rumbling, and Su Xia didn't hear it at all.

Xibao knew that his mother must not have heard it when he was cooking, so he got up and ran to the foyer to pick up his mobile phone, and saw that it was his father, "Mom, Dad's phone." "Send it to the kitchen and hand it to Susha.

"I have to work late today, so I won't go home for dinner."

"Got it, it's not too late." Su Xia, who was stir-frying, admonished. Looking at the mushu meat that was stir-frying, Su Xia muttered to himself, "Hey, I'm going to have leftovers again." ”

"When did Dad say he would come back?" Su Xia and her son Xibao sat around the table for dinner, Xibao picked up a mouthful of meat and put it in his mouth, and he was already very skilled in using chopsticks in the kindergarten class.

"He worked overtime today and had to come back late."

"But Dad hasn't played with me for days, and the puzzle of my city is too complicated to put together."

"Then you spell the simple first, keep the complex for Dad, Dad is busy with this paragraph, and he will be busy at the end of the year, you see that Mom is also very busy, isn't it." Su Xia put down the sip of soup she was about to drink, looked at Xibao and explained seriously.

"Then you can fight with me after eating."

"That's too complicated, I don't. Why don't we play backgammon! Susha suggested that she really had a headache with the complicated little puzzles.

"Good!" Xibao agreed happily and continued to bow his head and munch on bibimbap.

For children, happiness is not about playing with something, but about spending time with their beloved parents.

Su Xia and Chen Xuan are a typical family of three, and it is almost impossible for two dual-income parents to raise and take care of a child alone in the imperial capital, but Su Xia's family has some unique advantages, one is that the family housing, Xibao kindergarten, and the counterpart primary school are all located in the middle of the two-person unit, and the home and school are only twenty minutes' drive from the Suxia unit, so this is an important condition for being able to live leisurely in the imperial capital; Second, the nature of the two-person "9 to 5" work is relatively stable, and the working hours are relatively fixed; The third is that the elderly can occasionally help. Mother-in-law Jin Yahui is 62 years old, she has officially retired a few years ago, lives in a neighborhood not far from the next door, and occasionally has some illness, overtime, business trips and other conditions can also help, so the last sister-in-law Wang did not find a suitable one after returning to her hometown, so she never looked for it again. Although she was a little nervous and hard, Su Xia enjoyed it, lived a full life, and enjoyed every moment of frolicking, growing up and playing with her son. With the company of his parents, especially his mother, Xibao is smart, sensible, and optimistic, and at the age of four, he is already good at telling all kinds of jokes, making Su Xia lean back and back, maybe it's just that.