In the afternoon, the family courtyard is particularly quiet, but it seems that the cicadas are singing and noisy.

Liu Yanning pulled her son Ah Bao towards the gate of the family courtyard, she was holding an indigo parasol, I heard that it was a brand of goods in an imported store, small and light. A beautiful black hair is tied in braids, and if you look closely, you feel the difference, and there is a piece of landscape ink silk scarf braided in the hair forest, and the ends of the hair are beautifully exposed, which is indescribably beautiful.

Ah Bao jumped up and followed his mother to the gate, and the doorman was lying on the beauty chair leisurely playing a fan, his eyes were slowly closed.

A young man stood in the shade of a tree, on a hot day, he was wearing a gray shirt, straight suspender suit pants, and shiny leather shoes.

"You really don't have to come here on such a hot day, it's really bothering you." Liu Yanning took the cloth bag handed over by the other party and said embarrassedly.

"Passing by, I brought it by the way." The man's gaze swept over her innocent face, squatted down, took out a few small snacks from his trouser pocket, and handed them to Bao, "Uncle Song brought you beef jerky." ”

Ah Bao's white and tender little face was slightly red, took the beef jerky, and showed a row of cute little baby teeth to Song Jiahe.

When he got home, Liu Yanning poured out the contents of the cloth bag, it was an English book, Ah Bao curiously leaned over his little head to look, Liu Yanning touched his head, feeling hot and hot, "Ah Bao, do you want to eat ice cream?" ”

Po tilted his head and thought about it, if he wanted to eat ice cream, he would have to walk a long way in the sun to buy his favorite dwarf at the small shop on the side of the road.

He shook his head and ran to tinker with his favorite radio, I don't know how his little hand pressed it, and after a few clicks, he tuned to a foreign channel, and the room suddenly sounded a chirping sound, and Po tilted his ears and listened carefully.

Liu Yanning listened to it, it is a children's channel abroad, telling stories.

Aunt Qin's voice came from the kitchen, "I cooked mung bean soup!" ”

Liu Yanning laughed, "That's great, it's too hot, I don't want to go out again!" ”

Aunt Qin brought the mother and son a thick mung bean soup, which was chilled with well water in the yard, which was very heat-off.

Ah Bao didn't want to eat slowly with a spoon like his mother, he drank it in a few sips, pushed it to the dining table, and was about to go down to the ground to play, Aunt Qin's eyes quickly held the trembling bowl, "Little ancestor, don't break my bowl again!" Otherwise, your mother will have to toss and change to a new one! ”

Liu Yanning finished eating slowly, picked up the book sent by Song Jiahe, and sat under the eaves to flip through it.

Aunt Qin lightly put away the bowl and spoon, and brought a pot of cooled flower tea and a ceramic cup plated with a circle of gold rim to the round table covered with a small daisy tablecloth.

Aunt Qin finished her work, Liu Yanning was still reading, her beautiful brows were slightly locked, the breeze blew the broken hair in her ears, her slender neck was elegantly curved, and the sun plated her blue and white checkered skirt with broken gold, which was as pure as an oil painting.

Aunt Qin sat down and said in a low voice, "I heard that Shen Mu is coming back soon. ”

Liu Yanning flipped through the book for a moment, his expression did not change, and he simply spit out two words, "Really?" ”

Aunt Qin only had one more sentence, wiped her hands on her apron, and said to herself, "I have to do the laundry." ”

Aunt Qin went to work, but Liu Yanning was still staring at the words on the page, but she was in a trance.

It's been more than four years.

Four years ago, she specially rushed to meet Shen Mu at the singles party organized by the Aerospace Academy. Compared with others, Liu Yanning understands this man. Shen Mu traveled too much for work and couldn't take care of his family, so he had no intention of getting married at that time. But if he doesn't get married, the resistance to his career will be very great, and the organization will not give him a major task.

And Liu Yanning was anxious to get married, but she preferred to live alone, Shen Mu, who was not at home all the year round, was undoubtedly the best choice for her at that time, so the two hit it off and made a marriage report on the same day.

But accidents always disrupt the plan, on the day of the wedding, they were persuaded to drink as a newlywed, and the wedding night inexplicably rounded the house, the next day, Shen Mu's order came down, the manned spacecraft project was launched again, and Shen Mu, as the technical backbone, was transferred to Quanshi, and left on the third day.

Just like that, Liu Yanning became pregnant with Bao, and all plans were completely disrupted.

If there is no Bao, Shen Mu is just a legal husband to Liu Yanning, and with a child, he is still the father of the child. From pregnancy to childbirth, Liu Yanning wrote several letters to Shen Mu before and after, but they all fell into the sea, and for four years, Shen Mu did not hear from him.

Liu Yanning didn't care about Shen Mu's attitude towards her, there was no difference between the two and strangers, but he ignored Ah Bao so much, Liu Yanning couldn't forgive.

A young woman wearing a white short-sleeved shirt, an indigo over-the-knee skirt, and black cloth shoes carried a basket to the small red brick house where Liu Yanning's mother and son lived.

"Eldest sister, Dad's student sent him a basket of Lingnan lychees, and Mom asked me to send you a basket." The young woman laughed.

This is Liu Yanning's stepsister, only three years younger than Liu Yanning, and looks very much like Liu Yanning's stepmother Qi Wei.

"I'll eat lychees on the fire, take it."

Liu Yanning's cold attitude made Liu Xinru's eyes red, "Eldest sister, what did I do badly?" Why don't you even want to see me? ”

Liu Yanning lowered his head and said lightly: "There is no why." ”

Liu Xinru walked up the steps and put the lychee on the table, "We're all worried about you. As she spoke, she took out an envelope from her rucksack, "This is my pocket money that I usually save, buy some snacks for Po." ”

"Take it, don't let me say it a second time." Liu Yan's pretty face was like frost, and he said coldly.

Liu Xinru's eyes were red, and tears flowed, "Mom said that you are having a bad time, and I am worried about you." ”

Liu Yanning stopped talking, and his eyes returned to the book, his eyebrows and eyes were cold.

Liu Xinru cried for a while, she knew Liu Yanning's temper, and she didn't dare to leave things behind without her consent, and after waiting for a long time, Liu Yanning didn't mean to talk to her again.

"I still have an exam, eldest sister, can you leave lychee and money for you?" Liu Xinru asked cautiously

She waited for a while, but Liu Yanning still didn't agree, Liu Xinru sighed and left with her things.

Liu Yanning looked up at Liu Xinru's slender back, thinking of the friendship they grew up with, and her mood became heavy.

In the evening, the family home, which had been empty all day, was lively, with children running around in groups, and adults sitting together in threes, fives, and fives.

Liu Yanning sat in the living room reading a book, and when she looked up, Ah Bao stood motionless on the corridor. Liu Yanning followed Bao's gaze, and at the end of the line of sight was Mao Ningning's family next door, in the afterglow of the sunset, Mao Ningning sat on his father's shoulder, not knowing what to say, and the family of three all laughed.

Po just stared blankly.

Liu Yanning walked to Bao's side and touched Bao's little head, "Mom wants to eat ice cream, shall we go buy ice cream?" ”

Po raised his head, his eyes were shining, he nodded again and again, took his mother's hand, and couldn't wait to go.

didn't take a few steps before colliding with Mao Ningning's family.

Hu Xuehua held her husband in her arms, still wearing the work clothes of the Aerospace Institute, and greeted Ah Bao with a smile first, "Ah Bao, where are you going with your mother?" ”

Mao Ningning sat on Mao Xiaofeng's shoulder, wearing a small green military uniform, his big black eyes were spinning, his spirit was very angry, his head was shaved and smooth, only a small handful of hair was left on the top of his head, tied in a pigtail, looking like a lucky doll, he waved his little hand at Bao, "Bao~"

Po looked at him and pursed his lips.

"I'm going to buy ice cream, I've just gotten off work." Liu Yanning glanced at the vegetable basket that Hu Xuehua was carrying, they were a dual-income family, and Mao Ningning usually sent it to the nursery school of the Aerospace Institute.

Simply said hello, Liu Yanning took Ah Bao and continued to walk forward, inevitably passing through the cool crowd on the way, the two of them were like walking silence, wherever they went, the crowd was banned, until they walked over, the crowd behind them came to life again, and the topic of their mouths became the two of them, which is their never-fading fun.

"I heard that Shen Mu is coming back, I don't know what kind of mood he will feel when he sees his stupid son."

"Shen Mu was the champion of the province back then, and he was the ancestor of the multi-glorious sect, but unfortunately the aura of the old Shen family was occupied by him alone, and it was mute to give birth to a son."

"Ah Bao was smart when he was born, Liu Yanning only cared about his own happiness all day long, he didn't take care of the child well, he had a fever, his head burned stupidly, I listened to the child's grandmother! ...”

"Look at how she dresses like a young lady in a dance hall all day long, her clothes are pinched at the waist, and she can see everything clearly! Shen Mu was not at home, and he didn't know who to dress up for. ”

Someone said good things for Liu Yanning, "It's not easy for Xiaoliu to take care of children alone, so she became a mother at such a young age." ”

"Why does Jiang Dan take the children so well, I heard that Xiao Tongtong participated in the children's mathematics competition in the city and won the third place!"

"Xiao Tongtong is a little genius, he is smart when he is young, he started learning foreign languages at the age of three, and said that he would enter the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the future! This can't be compared, Shen Abao can't even speak! ”

The discussion on the back gradually became inaudible, Liu Yan stared at Ah Bao's little head, she knew that her Ah Bao was not a little fool, Liu Yanning also took him to a big hospital to see, the doctors said that Ah Bao's vocal cords were not problematic, it may be because of late talking, Liu Yanning has to teach Ah Bao to speak every day, but Ah Bao still can't speak.

Liu Yanning didn't know if Ah Bao was sick, and kept trying to find the answer in the book, but there were very few books on this in China, so she could only ask someone to bring back the relevant books from abroad, but she didn't understand the reason.

Quancheng Satellite Launch Center.

In order to overcome the manned spacecraft project, Shen Mu, who served in the General Academy of Astronautics, was transferred to the Quancheng Satellite Launch Center, and he has not returned home for four years.

Yang Yi, who was also in the command headquarters, was his classmate and friend, and the relationship was very iron when he was in the military academy, Shen Mu was sorting out the information, Yang Yi walked into the office, "Old Shen, congratulations, you're finally going home, you haven't seen the big fat son yet!" ”

Shen Mu smiled reluctantly, "I've been here for a long time, and I'm really reluctant to leave, comrades." ”

Yang Yi joked, "That's easy to do, we swapped, and I'm fed up with this place where birds don't." ”

The conditions of the satellite launch center are arduous and the tasks are heavy, and those who can persevere are all people with great perseverance.

Yang Yi joked with him a few words and went out.

Shen Mu opened the drawer, and in the drawer was a letter sent by Shen's mother Wu Guifen in the past few years, one a month, never stopping.

And his newlywed wife, who has been absent for four years, only sent a letter when she gave birth to a child, and it was just a simple line on it - October 1 birth, mother and child are safe.

The base has heavy tasks and very heavy work, so he has little time to rest, so he can only send a letter to Liu Yanning in his spare time, but he never receives a reply.

As for the child, he can only learn from the letter of his mother Wu Guiying. But every letter sent by her mother was dissatisfied with Liu Yanning - monopolizing Shen Mu's allowance and not supporting the elderly; loves to dress up, and is not clear with other men; The child became a fool with a high fever because of her poor care, and so on.

After all, Liu Yanning gave birth to a child for him, he couldn't listen to his mother's words, and wrote to Jiang Jianlin, the old superior who lived in the family home, for verification, and the answer he got was not different from what his mother said.

Somehow this news spread in the center, Shen Mu would occasionally hear his comrades-in-arms talk behind their backs, Shen Mu was born in the countryside, changed his life against the sky and entered the General Academy of Astronautics, and his future is unlimited, but there is a 'stupid son', this news seems to make some people feel psychologically balanced, and Shen Mu can't take advantage of everything.

All this is like the most vicious sun in the Gobi Desert, which bakes Shen Mu's expectation of going home to the core, and he really wants to go back, he is even a little homesick, but no matter whether the child is stupid or not, he wants to see him soon.

Shen Mu put all the family letters away, and in the deepest part of the drawer, there was a pile of yellowed letters tied up with red wool, lying in the drawer for several years, if it hadn't been inadvertently collected, Shen Mu would have almost forgotten its existence.

A few years ago, Shen Mu was still studying in a military school, and read the other party's literary novels serialized in newspapers and magazines in a literary journal in the library, and liked it very much.

Shen Mu thought about it, and still put the letter in his bag.

After packing his luggage, it was soon the day of departure, Shen Mu turned around several times before getting on the train, and the train swept through the golden poplar forest, like a sky of broken gold sprinkled on this dry and barren land, destined to shine.