"But second brother, we bought this house and emptied the family, relatives on both sides have borrowed it, there is really no money left at home, your eldest brother and I have paid off every month, in addition to living expenses, the rest of the money is used to pay off debts, this money is considered to be borrowed from you, but it will not be paid for a while..."

Shen Mu knew that Gu Man was playing Tai Chi with her, but she said that Wu Guifen only took 4,000, which means that the rest of the money was spent by Wu Guifen and his family. Wu Guifen's most beloved son in his life is Shen Guirong, but whenever he has a penny, he is given a penny, and the two old men live very poorly, saying that they spent more than 5,000 yuan, which is impossible.

Gu Man said again: "Dad had an illness two years ago and spent a lot of money, so it should have been spent at that time. ”

Even if Gu Man only recognized the account of 4,000 yuan, they couldn't take it out for a while, so Shen Mu had no choice but to say: "Sister-in-law, see if you can find a way to make up some and give it back to me, Ah Bao has not been able to speak, I will take him to a big hospital for a check-up." ”

Gu Man laughed, "Bao, maybe the child is just late to speak, so there is no need to spend money to go to a big hospital." ”

When Shen Mu heard her say this, his attitude also hardened, "This is a matter of the child's life, how can I do it if I don't take him to see it!" Originally, my mother went to claim my salary without my permission, but she took the money away, and Yanning's mother and son have had a very difficult time in the past few years! Anyway, you can get it back to me first. ”

Gu Man kicked the ball to Shen Guirong, "I'm a woman's family, how can I get so much money for a while, this is a matter between your brothers, you better go to your brother to discuss." ”

Gu Man gritted his teeth and said that there was no money, Shen Mu couldn't do anything with her for a while, looking for Shen Guirong, it was even more impossible to get the money back, and Shen Guirong didn't care about it at all.

At work the next day, Shen Mu reported the salary to Gong Yang.

Gong Yang was very surprised, "The signature on the payroll form is Liu Yanning's name, I always thought that Yanning received your salary!" When the women's federation of the unit organized condolences, she never said that she had not received her salary. ”

In fact, at that time, Liu Yanning didn't know that Shen Mu had applied for a salary to her. Later, when others talked about her spending lavishly, she only thought that those people thought she was spending the salary that Shen Mu sent home.

"The application I made to the unit was also sent to my lover, and only the leaders of the unit and Jiang Dan as an accountant knew about it, how did my mother know, and why did Jiang Dan pay my mother a salary?" Shen Mu hadn't thought deeply about these questions at first, but after he thought about them all before, he found that these people were deliberate.

Gong Yang is now his direct leader, and he used to be his instructor, and the two are also teachers and friends.

Gong Yang glanced at him and sighed, "I really didn't expect Jiang Dan to do such a thing." But didn't you notice that Jiang Dan had a different view of you in the past? ”

Even Gong Yang noticed that something was wrong, and Shen Mu was taken aback again, "No! ”

Gong Yang patted him on the shoulder, "You people are good at scientific research and work, why are you so ignorant of these things?" Do you remember that once Jiang Jianlin had a birthday, we all went to his house to celebrate his birthday, Jiang Dan washed apples for everyone to eat, but the only one for you was peeled by her? ”

Shen Mu shook his head, "I didn't pay attention, besides, I don't like to eat peeled apples, it's not fragrant!" ”

Gong Yang laughed, "You are just too slow, otherwise such a good young man can be reduced to being arranged to go to the unit for friendship?" After laughing, he became serious, "I will react to the leader about your salary, but Jiang Dan is operating in violation of the rules, but after all, it is issued to your mother, at most it is a warning and punishment." ”

Then Gong Yang glanced at him secretly, and said something that was incompatible, "Before Xiao Qiang's accident, Jiang Dan was divorcing him. ”

Shen Mu was stunned, "At that time... Jiang Dan hasn't given birth yet, right? ”

Xiao Tongtong is a posthumous son, and when Xiao Qiang had an accident, he and Jiang Dan had only been married for a month.

Gong Yang lowered his voice, "Back then, Jiang Dan had to marry Xiao Qiang, Jiang Jianlin was sick, and until now, father and daughter have not interacted. ”

Gong Yang patted Shen Mu on the shoulder, when Xiao Qiang had an accident, Gong Yang happened to be at the base, and when he learned that Xiao Qiang was killed, Shen Mu was struck by lightning, and he cried at that time. He knew that it had always been a matter of Shen Mu's heart.

"I've always wanted to find an opportunity to talk to you, don't carry psychological baggage anymore, it's not good to write a letter to say that Xiao Qiang was still at the base at the time, and Jiang Dan wrote a divorce application to the unit, which was suppressed by Dean Jiang, and few people knew."

Shen Mu had been thinking that the other two people on the plane had jumped out in time to escape, but Xiao Qiang in the co-pilot seat didn't know why he was half a minute late to react, and these thirty seconds decided life and death.

At that time, Xiao Qiang had been thinking about divorce, so he was slow to react? You must know that it takes a long time to train to become a pilot, and he is very experienced in this kind of emergency, if Xiao Qiang is not distracted, how can he not jump in time?

Back in the office, Shen Mu decided to write a letter to Zhao Bo, another pilot on the plane at that time, after the accident, both pilots made a statement of fact, Shen Mu remembered that Zhao Bo and another observer mentioned that Xiao Qiang seemed to be distracted at that time, and they called him loudly before jumping off the plane, but Xiao Qiang was still slow. He wanted to ask Zhao Bo if there were any details that he hadn't remembered.

After writing the letter sent to Zhao Bo, Shen Mu wrote another letter to Yang Yi, asking him to check whether the base had received a letter from Liu Yanning in recent years, and if the letter arrived at the base, the letters sent and received were recorded.

After doing this, he looked at the spaceship model on the table, which he saw in Gong Yang's office, Gong Yang finally got such a one-to-one spaceship model, and he was reluctant to give it to him, until Shen Mu said that Bao likes aerospace models, this is for Bao, Gong Yang couldn't bear to cut his love. This spaceship was given to Gong Yang privately by an investigator of Lao Mei. Gong Yang looked at the spacecraft intoxicated and sighed to Shen Mu, "When will our country's manned spacecraft be successfully launched!" ”

Shen Mu also borrowed fifty yuan from Gong Yang, he used to live in the base with food and accommodation, and he couldn't starve to death if he had no money, but now he can't, he lives in the entertainment and spends money.

Shen Mu thought that he still had to think about getting his money back, and he really had to take Ah Bao to the doctor.

After getting off work, Shen Mu came to the family home with the model, he was not willing to spend money to take the car, and walked for half an hour.

Walking to the door, Shen Mu met Liu Yanning's mother and son who came out to buy something, Ah Bao saw his eyes light up and waved his little hand at him.

Shen Mu walked up to him and squatted down, "Dad brought you your favorite thing." ”

Shen Mu took out the spaceship model from his backpack, "This is the spaceship that Dad asked you from Uncle Gong, do you like it?" ”

Liu Yanning glanced at it, a round metal body with strange wings on both sides, is this what Shen Mu has been studying for four years on a business trip?

In the past four years, Liu Yanning only blamed Shen Mu for not writing a letter to care about Bao, but he never blamed him for choosing this job, if a nation wants to progress, it is bound to sacrifice the family happiness of a small number of scientific research pioneers to create the future of the country and the nation.

Po looked at the model curiously.

Shen Mu patiently explained the spacecraft to Bao, "Our country does not have a spaceship yet, only if we develop a spaceship and successfully send astronauts into space, can our country enter the ranks of space powers..."

Liu Yanning looked at Shen Mu, and when he talked about the aerospace industry, his face seemed to be shining with golden light.

Ah Bao couldn't put it down the spaceship model, and even wanted to go home immediately to observe it, Liu Yanning had no choice but to say to Shen Mu: "I think he wants to go home immediately, you take him back first, I'll go buy ice cream." ”

"I'll buy it." Shen Mu said.

Liu Yanning directly handed Bao's small hand to him, "I have to buy something else." ”

Shen Mu took Ah Bao to his home and met Jiang Dan's mother and son.

Seeing Shen Mu, Jiang Dan naturally greeted him, "Did you take Ah Bao out?" ”

She reminded Xiao Tongtong to say hello to Shen Mu, "Call Uncle Shen quickly!" ”

Xiao Tongtong glanced at Ah Bao, who was being held by Shen Mu, and stared at him without speaking.

Shen Mu nodded at Xiao Tongtong, Ah Bao wrinkled his little nose and pulled Shen Mu away.

Jiang Dan hurriedly stopped him, "Shen Mu, are you still angry with me?" ”

Shen Mu stopped, he felt the need to make it clear to Jiang Dan, "Jiang Dan, I don't have anything to be angry about, I came back from Quanshi, except for my wife and children, the most concerned is Tong Tong, I think that Xiao Qiang is leaving, and I should take care of my son for him." I specially applied for my salary and asked my wife Liu Yanning to collect it, which is probably only a few leaders and accountants, you know, how did my mother know? Your house is less than 50 meters away from my house, but my mother lives in a chemical factory more than a dozen stations away, you really think that Yanning doesn't have time to go to the unit to collect money, you can help deliver it to your home. ”

Jiang Dan's face turned pale, and she wanted to justify, but Shen Mu interrupted her, "I am worried about Tong Tong, but you are trying to harm my wife and children." You know that Po is in a special situation and needs money to treat the disease. ”

Jiang Dan's face turned pale, "Shen Mu, I didn't..."

"I've already reported the situation to my boss." After Shen Mu finished the last sentence, he looked at Xiao Tongtong, who had never seen his father. Shen Mu thought of Xiao Qiang again, he had seen Xiao Qiang before the test flight that day, Xiao Qiang had obviously lost a lot of weight, he didn't see that Xiao Qiang was holding on to his spirits, and he also asked him how he lost weight at that time, Xiao Qiang didn't say, it turned out that Jiang Dan was divorcing him.

Shen Mu pulled Ah Bao away, Jiang Danru was struck by lightning and stood in place, Xiao Tongtong pulled her, "Mom, are we going to class?" ”

Jiang Dan looked at Xiao Tongtong, looking at his face that resembled that man, she felt a wave of nausea in her heart, Jiang Dan raised his hand to shake Xiao Tongtong away, and hurriedly walked towards the gate.

Xiao Tongtong was so frightened that he stayed in place, he didn't understand why his mother suddenly hated him again.

Liu Yanning walked into the family courtyard with a net bag, and the crowd was still in twos and threes, Liu Yanning held an umbrella and walked in the afterglow of the sunset.

"Yanning, Shen Mu is back!" Someone greeted her.

Liu Yanning nodded, she has never interacted with these people in the compound, although their husbands are colleagues, they like to get together to talk about people's rights and wrongs, and Liu Yanning doesn't like to mess with them. These people won't talk about it in front of her, after all, this is a family hospital, and there are people in the family who work in the aerospace institute, which is too much.

Aunt Qin was always angry because of the gossip of these people, and Liu Yanning was also angry at first, but people didn't talk about her, she couldn't find a place to start even if she was angry, and later she found out that these women didn't have a job, and they circled around their husbands and children all day long, so they had to gossip about people for fun.

Liu Yanning even felt that they were quite pitiful, and the empty souls had nothing meaningful, only a stomach full of gossip.

But since Shen Mu came back, these women no longer dared to talk about Liu Yanning blatantly, this is what Aunt Qin said.

Back home, Shen Mu was accompanying Ah Bao to play the little train, Ah Bao's enthusiasm for this reborn little train was unprecedentedly high, and the track was not even put away, and he had to play several times a day.

Seeing Liu Yanning coming back, Po ran over, Liu Yanning handed him his dwarf ice cream, and took an extra mung bean ice cream to him.

Ah Bao tilted his head to understand what his mother meant, ran to Shen Mu's side, and stuffed mung bean ice cream into his hand.

Shen Mu was flattered, Liu Yanning carried it all the way back, and the ice cream was already a little soft.

"Yesterday... Went to a chemical plant. Shen Mu hesitated to tell everything about Gu Man's house, "Sister-in-law said that they can't come up with the money to pay us back now, I want her to pay back some of it first and take Ah Bao to see a doctor." ”

Liu Yanning took a bite of ice cream, "I won't go to the doctor anymore, I took him there, there is no problem with the vocal cords, and it will be the same if you look at it again." She looked at Po licking the ice cream, "But you can go and see if there is any way to do Chinese medicine, but Chinese medicine is too bitter." ”

Liu Yanning mentioned the medicine, and Ah Bao immediately put down the ice cream and shook his head at Liu Yanning again and again to show his resistance.

Liu Yanning ignored him, "But the money has to be returned, believe it or not, your sister-in-law knows everything." ”

Gu Man came to the house once after Liu Yanning gave birth to a child, although there was no sharp contradiction between the two, but Liu Yanning knew that this sister-in-law was very powerful from that time.

Shen Mu was embarrassed: "My sister-in-law said that my mother only gave her 4,000 yuan, and the rest of the money was borrowed, and now there is no money to pay us back, I asked them to find a way to make up, and she asked me to go to my eldest brother to discuss." ”

"Scoundrel." Liu Yanning sneered, "She said that your mother only gave four thousand, and she has a little conscience, she just said that your mother didn't give a penny, and the rest of the money was borrowed from your relatives, and you have no way to take her, you can only go to your mother, who let your mother take the money, your sister-in-law has never taken this money, but you have no way to take your mother." ”

Shen Mu frowned, that's the truth.

Liu Yanning looked at Bao, "I want to buy a piano for Bao, and if I want the money back, I can almost buy it." ”

"Piano?" Shen Mu was stunned.

"It's your dad's birthday in a few days, right? Leave the matter of asking for money to me, you are a man after all, and you only suffer a lot from your sister-in-law, so I will ask for it. Liu Yanning didn't want to care about this, but this money is cheaper for others, so it is better to buy a piano for Bao.

A few days later, Shen Jianhua's birthday arrived, this time Liu Yanning did not dress up like usual, but picked out the most inconspicuous clothes from the wardrobe, she had never been to Shen Jianhua's birthday in the past few years, in order to ask for money, this time their family of three arrived.

Shen Mu bought a bottle of wine for Shen Jianhua.

When they arrived, Gu Man's family had already arrived first, and seeing that Liu Yanning was also coming, Gu Man was taken aback, and greeted with a smile, "Shen Mu is back, and my younger siblings' complexions are much better." ”

Liu Yanning called out her sister-in-law.

When Wu Guifen heard that they were coming, she ran out of the kitchen, and when she saw that Shen Mu only had a bottle of wine in her hand, she was immediately dissatisfied, but thinking that he would have to give money for a while, she reluctantly put her anger back, and looked at Liu Yanning again, "Yo, this sun is coming out in the west!" Just right, come and help in the kitchen! Your eldest brother's colleague is coming to celebrate your dad's birthday in a moment! ”

Liu Yanning didn't hear it, and pulled Ah Bao to find a clean place to sit down.

Shen Guirong's colleague is coming, Gu Man came in advance to clean the house inside and out, I have to say that Gu Man is a good hand at work, such a dirty home, tidy and tidy.

Shen Mu rolled up his sleeves and went into the kitchen to help, Wu Guifen glared at Liu Yanning, but Liu Yanning was unmoved.

"Mom, the smoke is so condensed that Po, I'll help." Shen Mu said.

Wu Guifen snorted heavily, what she couldn't get used to was her son protecting her daughter-in-law, and she couldn't put on a mother-in-law's pretense.

After a while, the neighbors of the chemical plant came, these were Shen Guirong's colleagues, a family home lived, and any old family had to celebrate their birthdays, which meant something.

Ah Bao is not like ordinary children who can't sit still in an unfamiliar environment, he sits obediently on a small stool, looking at him cute, some adults talk and tease him, Ah Bao purses his lips and looks at each other with wet eyes.

Shen Jun was playing with toys next to him and said loudly: "He's a little fool, he can't speak!" ”

Ah Bao Huo turned his head to look at him, it was true that he couldn't speak, but he was not a little fool!

Liu Yanning said to Shen Jun: "Ah Bao is not a little fool, he is very smart. ”

"He is! My mom said he was a little fool! Shen Jun retorted.

Liu Yanning was not angry, "Then let's do it, you are so smart, you can have an arithmetic competition with Bao, I will come up with the questions, whoever answers them first will win, I will come up with five questions, how about it?" ”

"He can't speak, how can he compare!" Shen Jun was disdainful.

Po can use gestures to make gestures. If you lose, you apologize to Po, how about it? ”

The adults on the side wanted to see the excitement and encouraged Shen Jun to compete, Shen Jun liked this feeling of being in the center of the crowd, and nodded in agreement, "Okay then, don't say that I bullied the little fool." ”

"What is 14+21?" Liu Yanning began to come up with questions, because Ah Bao gestured with her fingers, and she came up with questions where the ten digits and single digits of the results were within five.

Shen Jun didn't expect her to come up with a two-digit addition, and he was about to pull his fingers to calculate, but Ah Bao had already accurately used his two little hands to draw the correct answer.

Gu Man heard the laughter in the hall and walked out of the kitchen, seeing Shen Jun's face flushed, his fingers were broken in a hurry, and beads of sweat came out of his forehead.

For five questions in a row, Ah Bao drew the answers instantly, and Shen Jun was not even qualified to answer them.

Po looked at her mother, grinning and revealing a row of tiny teeth.

"Xiaojun, people are not fools, they are smarter than you."

"This kid is only three or four years old, but what a smart one!"

"Apologize to Po." Liu Yanning didn't forget to apologize for this incident and said to Shen Jun.

Shen Jun hung his head and was about to open his mouth to apologize, but Gu Man interrupted in time, "Yanning, what are you doing here?" ”

Some guests preemptively talked about the cause and effect, and praised Ah Bao for being smart by the way.

Gu Man's smile was a little reluctant, "How does Yan Ning care about children, what does Shen Jun know, he likes his younger brother very much." ”

Liu Yanning smiled and said: "Yes, what does a child know, if it weren't for adults to teach him, he would know what fools are not fools, he has never seen Bao." ”

Everyone understood the meaning of Liu Yanning's words, and looked at Gu Man with strange eyes, Gu Man couldn't explain, if he didn't say it, he didn't have three hundred taels of silver here, so he had to pretend not to understand and went to the kitchen.

Liu Yanning and Ah Bao's appetite is diar, there is no one on this table that she likes, she moved a few chopsticks slightly, and Ah Bao doesn't like it either, and only eats white rice.

It's the turn of Shen Jianhua's birthday.

Liu Yanning rushed in front of Shen Mu and said: "Shen Mu has not been at home all these years, thanks to the eldest brother and sister-in-law taking care of his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Shen Mu has to thank the eldest brother and sister-in-law." ”

Gu Man was comfortable listening to this, and a smile appeared on his face.

Liu Yanning said again: "The eldest brother and sister-in-law moved to a new house, and Shen Mu was not at home, so we couldn't help." The in-laws subsidize them, and we have no opinion, mother-in-law, sister-in-law said that they bought a house, and you only gave 4,000 yuan, which can be regarded as a favor. ”

Wu Guifen and Gu Man have always been at odds, today Gu Man came back to clean up and threw away all the rags they had worked so hard to pick up, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had a big quarrel because of this.

"What four thousand yuan, I took a total of fourteen thousand before and after!"

Gu Man didn't expect Liu Yanning to suddenly mention the matter of money, she had a fight with Wu Guifen as soon as she came today, and before she had time to confess to her, she was in a hurry to add, "Mom, some money is borrowed..."

Liu Yanning said quickly: "That's impossible, mother-in-law, sister-in-law said that you can't come up with so much money, you don't keep pension money for yourself, what if your son can't be relied on in the future?" ”

"When did I say..."

Before Gu Man finished speaking, Wu Guifen pointed at Gu Man and said angrily: "Shen Mu's salary of more than 9,000 yuan, your father and I are not willing to spend a penny, all of them are given to you to buy a house, Gu Man, you have no conscience!" Don't you want to provide for me and your father, you said that on purpose! ”