The news that Shen Mu came back that day and left with his bag spread more and more in the family home, most people believed that Shen Mu couldn't accept it when he came home and saw his stupid son, so he would rather go out to live in a guest house than stay at home, Liu Yanning's sin seemed to be even greater, she could hear other people's discussions about herself without going out.

Hu Xuehua came after dinner.

She carried a net of apples and pulled Mao Ningning together.

"Sister Hu, what are you doing with your things, please take a seat." Liu Yanning greeted Hu Xuehua.

Hu Xuehua said with a smile: "The apples that the child's uncle brought from the countryside are not worth much, so I will bring you a few to taste." ”

Mao Ningning looked at Ah Bao curiously, Ah Bao didn't like to go out, he usually couldn't see him in the pile of friends.

The two children are about the same age, but they rarely play together, and Mao Ningning usually sends them to the nursery school of the Aerospace Institute. Ah Bao was very happy to see Mao Ningning, and he pulled Mao Ningning into the study, which was his favorite place, and his treasures were almost all in it.

"I heard that the hospital is going to arrange work for the backbone families, Shen Mu is the backbone of the backbone, if you want to go to work, it must be the most priority arrangement."

Liu Yanning said: "I want to accompany Ah Bao, I didn't want to go to work." ”

The Aerospace Institute is a good unit, and the benefits are also good, many people sharpen their heads and want to squeeze in, but Liu Yanning refused without thinking about it, but Hu Xuehua understands her, Ah Bao is different from other children, and he needs more company.

"I met Shen Mu in the courtyard today." Hu Xuehua glanced at Liu Yanning, "The project over there in Quancheng has been shelved, if it is not restarted, Shen Mu's work should not change much." ”

Liu Yanning's eyelids drooped, and her slender eyelashes were like a small fan, covering up all the emotions in her eyes.

Hu Xuehua still remembers that Liu Yanning just married Shen Mu, Shen Mu was transferred to Quancheng, Liu Yanning lived alone in the family home, she didn't interact with people much, and she usually only smiled when she met. On the night of the National Day three years ago, when she and Mao Xiaofeng were already asleep, they suddenly heard someone knocking on the door, Mao Xiaofeng slept to death, and Hu Xuehua was woken up.

When she woke up Mao Xiaofeng to open the door, under the dim light of the living room, Liu Yanning held on to the door frame, her face was as white as paper, and the whole person was full of sweat as if she had just been fished out of the water, she grabbed Hu Xuehua's hand like grasping a life-saving straw, "Sister Hu, I seem to be about to give birth." ”

Mao Xiaofeng hurriedly pushed out the bicycle at home and sent Liu Yanning to the hospital, and the amniotic water broke halfway.

After Liu Yanning was discharged from the hospital, Hu Xuehua came to visit her. The house was very chaotic, Ah Bao was so hungry that he cried, and Liu Yan hugged Ah Bao haggardly, helpless.

There are only noodles in the kitchen, more than a dozen bundles of noodles, Liu Yanning can't cook, and eats this every day during confinement, where will there be milk.

Hu Xuehua made milk powder for the child, changed diapers, went home to get eggs and sweet wine, and cooked a meal of sweet wine eggs for Liu Yanning.

Liu Yanning's confinement was served by Hu Xuehua. Shen Mu came twice his mother, and left after seeing the child.

"I heard that Shen Mu came back yesterday, but he left again, didn't he live at home?" Hu Xuehua asked.

"There's no room left at home."

Hu Xuehua looked at her and became cold when she talked about Shen Mu, and couldn't help but want to defend Shen Mu, "Shen Mu is also forced by work, there is no choice, he is a soldier and has his mission." ”

Liu Yanning didn't like to share her unhappiness, so she never told Hu Xuehua about Shen Mu, and Hu Xuehua didn't know that the couple didn't communicate with each other, so she only thought that Liu Yanning blamed him because Shen Mu hadn't come back for four years.

Liu Yanning didn't speak, and Hu Xuehua persuaded again: "You all already have Ah Bao, even if it's not for anything else, you have to leave Shen Mu behind for Ah Bao." ”

In the study, Ah Bao enthusiastically showed Mao Ningning his treasures, the aerospace model given by Uncle Song, the motor train, and his radio.

Mao Ningning saw that the small train with such a long track could barely move, pestering Ah Bao to play.

Ah Bao also generously built the track, Mao Ningning pouted his ass to help, but his hands-on ability was not good, he always had to reverse the track, purely to help, and finally built the track, Ah Bao pressed the motor switch, and the small train moved.

Mao Ningning was dumbfounded, his little train had to be pushed by hand to move, and it was the first time he had seen the little train that he could move.

The cheers of children were heard in the study, interrupting the conversation of the adults in the living room.

Liu Yanning will not consider letting Shen Mu come back for the time being, she knows very well that an irresponsible father not only does not help the child's growth, but may also bring harm to the child.

Hu Xuehua said everything that should have been said, seeing that Liu Yanning was still unmoved, and there was no way, after all, it was a matter of two people, she just hoped that Liu Yanning's mother and son would have a better life.

The two children walked out of the study, and Po ran to her mother, pointed to the TV with her finger, and made a gesture.

Hu Xuehua couldn't understand what Ah Bao was expressing, but Liu Yanning understood, "Okay, let's play." ”

Po grinned happily, her baby teeth grew neatly, and she jumped up and down to turn on the TV.

Liu Yanning saw Po press the button on the TV, skipping the images she couldn't understand one by one, after a burst of complex images, there were pockmarks on the TV, and after a while, game images appeared, there were many planes on the screen, and the player used a tank to shoot down these planes.

Hu Xuehua was a little surprised, "Can your TV still play games?" ”

"I don't know how Po got it, we can't tune it out, so he can adjust it himself when he wants to play."

Ah Bao took the remote control, and under Mao Ningning's gaze, he pressed the above button several times in turn, and the tank on the screen also moved left and right with his movements, this is the simplest game, plane battle.

Ah Bao obviously wanted his friends to play with him, he demonstrated a few times and handed the remote control to Mao Ningning, Mao Ningning took the remote control, couldn't remember the buttons, pressed it randomly, the plane on the screen was not killed, rushed to the bottom, the game was over.

Ah Bao was not discouraged, restarted the game, and demonstrated to Mao Ningning again, but Mao Ningning still couldn't learn, and he didn't know which one to press when he took the remote control, Ah Bao was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, circled around Mao Ningning, and kept showing him how to use the remote control, eager to speak.

Liu Yanning laughed, and Hu Xuehua also laughed, "Ah Bao is really a smart child, Mao Ningning can't understand this, he is one year older than Ah Bao." ”

Mao Ningning couldn't learn, so she cried in a hurry, wiped her tears with the back of her hand, and even the braids on her head hung down in frustration.

Ah Bao looked at Mao Ningning blankly, his small body, and sighed heavily.

Mao Ningning couldn't play games, Ah Bao had to give up and pull him to play on the radio, this Mao Ningning could play, he often played with his father's radio.

But Ah Bao seems to play differently than he plays, there are too many buttons on the radio, Mao Ningning doesn't know which one to press to make a sound, he is all pressed randomly, if the blind cat can meet a dead mouse, he can hear the sound of the radio, and he can also tune the frequency.

Po skillfully pressed the channel he wanted to listen to, and the voice came out immediately.

The background music is very good, but the problem is that Mao Ningning can't understand it, and she doesn't know what she's talking about, but Ah Bao listens to it with relish, and from time to time she will make a laughing appearance, which reminds Mao Ningning of what other children in the family yard said - Ah Bao is a little fool, and this look really looks like it.

An idea suddenly popped up in Mao Ningning's little head, Ah Bao must not be stupid, he was just playing something that Mao Ningning didn't understand.

Po is really powerful, Mao Ningning thought to herself.

Ah Bao Yu Guang saw that Mao Ningning was unmoved, the story on the radio was so interesting, but Mao Ningning didn't seem to understand, Ah Bao was suddenly a little lost.

It was about eight o'clock in the evening when there was a knock on the door.

Liu Yanning went over and opened the door, it was Mao Xiaofeng who came to pick up the two of them.

"Brother Mao, come in and sit." Liu Yanning greeted him with a smile.

Mao Xiaofeng smiled: "I'll go out for a walk and pick them up by the way." ”

Hu Xuehua was a little embarrassed, and blamed her husband, "It's so close, what else do you want." ”

But it's really not early, I have to go back to bathe Mao Ningning, at nine o'clock, Ning Ning is about to go to bed, she raised her voice and shouted to the study, "Ning Ning, go home!" ”

Mao Ningning and Ah Bao ran out together.

It's time to go home, Mao Ningning rushed to Mao Xiaofeng and raised his arms, "Dad, I want to ride a horse!" ”

Mao Xiaofeng smiled and scooped Mao Ningning up and put it on his neck, Mao Ningning hugged his father's head, braided it to the sky and cocked it up angrily, and shouted happily in his mouth: "Drive!" ”

After saying goodbye to Liu Yanning, Hu Xuehua went out with their father and son.

Liu Yanning sent them out, turned his head, and saw Ah Bao sitting on his toy wooden horse, shaking his little body, looking very depressed.

She looked at Ah Bao in a daze, and an idea suddenly popped up in her heart, Ah Bao may really yearn for fatherly love, he just can't speak or express.

......

Considering that Shen Mu had been on a business trip for four years, the leaders of the hospital originally wanted to give him a special grant of half a month's leave so that he could reunite with his family, but Shen Mu refused.

The approval of the dormitory he applied for was not smooth, there were many single colleagues in the hospital, and the dormitory was not enough, Shen Mu had already taken special care of the house before he got married, and now he had a home and applied for a single dormitory, how could he feel strange, his direct leader Gong Yang talked to him.

"Why do you want to come to the dormitory if you don't live at home?" When he was in the military academy, Gong Yang was his instructor, and later transferred to the Aerospace Academy, where he was both his boss and his teacher.

"I can't live at home."

This reason was too easy to debunk, Gong Yang stared at him for a few seconds, "Quarreled with his wife?" ”

Shen Mu smiled bitterly, "How come." ”

"What's that?" Gong Yang broke the casserole and asked in the end, Shen Mu is the backbone of the Aerospace Institute, and he has not been back to the Satellite Launch Center in Quancheng City on a business trip for four years, he is selfless and dedicated, and the organization has to help him guard the rear.

Shen Mu was silent, and after a while, he stood up, "It doesn't matter if there is really no extra in the dormitory of the unit, I can just find a way to solve it myself." I'll go back first. ”

Gong Yang hurriedly called him, "Hey! Shen Mu, you come back for me! ”

Shen Mu turned his head, "What's the matter?" ”

Gong Yang paused, didn't ask him about moving out of the house, and instead said, "Do you know about Jiang Dan's entry into the aerospace institute to work?" ”

Shen Mu was stunned.

"In order to take care of the widows of the martyrs, the organization specially granted her a job, which is in the logistics support department."

Shen Mu nodded, signaled that he knew, and walked out.

Walking out of Gong Yang's office, Shen Mu looked up at the sky, Lan Yinyin, just like the TT&C joint commissioning flight before the rocket launch, the sky was clear, the test flight inspection work was done, the time and place were favorable, everyone was in the chest, no one would have expected the flight accident.