"We are superfluous." Ryan watched as his mother hugged Tuantuan, and his father embraced his mother's shoulders and held Tuantuan's little hand. Grandma looked at Tuantuan with a smile on her face. The whole family gathered around Tuantuan, lively He came out to greet them, and then entered the room lively. He and Orston were "abandoned" in place, and neither of them got a look from their parents orz.
Auston said, "Will Tuantuan feel sad when we turn around now?"
"Of course I will. I'll feel like an unwanted little orphan."
Auston's heart was throbbing, and he couldn't imagine the day when he left for work. "If possible, I would like to keep my children by my side. But I know this is impossible. Children will always grow up and leave their parents. Yes, and we still have work, and we must get used to parting."
Reason and emotion can never be unified, this is the contradiction and loveliness of human beings.
Ryan raised his hand and caressed Oston's cheek, "No matter what happens, it is part of the child's growth process, we just let it be, don't think so much. Before going to work, play with him."
"Hmm." Alston sighed silently, knowing that this is the best.
"It's also good for training children's independent ability, but I think that with parents and grandma around, it will only be more pampered than us. Independence... Uh..." Ryan only hoped that his parents and family would not spoil Tuantuan too much. Eating independently (although eating with small hands, you don’t need to be chased and coaxed to eat, which is very worry-free), don’t wait for him and Oston to come back from work to find that Tuantuan is so pampered that he needs to be fed. "If you don't obey, you will be spanked."
"Let Tuantuan know that you are thinking about spanking him, and definitely don't want to talk to you."
Ryan shrugged helplessly, "There must always be a strict one in the family who can restrain him, and I will be it."
"Why don't you come in?" Dad Qin Yi leaned out half of his body from the gate, and said quickly, "I'll wait for you to eat, don't be hungry." After finishing speaking, he retracted his body and walked in. It must be to be rare His grandson is gone.
Ryan and Auston looked at each other, "..." This is probably the case with the next generation.
With Tuantuan, Tuantuan's father and father will stand aside, no matter how strong the sense of presence is, it will not be able to steal Tuantuan's status in the hearts of the elders. From the moment Tuantuan was sent to the planting star, the countdown to the brief separation had already begun. Oston and Ryan had to leave their children and return to their posts. This is the duty, mission and responsibility of soldiers. responsibility. Not only them, in many corners of this country, for the safety and stability of the country, how many soldiers have endured the pain and longing of being separated from their relatives, staying at the post for several years, and when they return home, the infant children I can already run and jump, and I still ask: Uncle/Auntie, who are you looking for
Holographic video calling is really no substitute for physical contact...
In the ever-shortening days, Ryan and Auston took a group to play planting stars, stepped on surfboards to cheer among the waves, wore deep diving equipment to count the number of clownfish among sea anemones, and walked barefoot in the sunset Going down to the soft sandy beach to pick up beautiful shells with Tuan Tuan... In the knee-high snow, Tuan Tuan was immediately buried in the snow; Tuan Tuan walked a few steps in the dry desert and murmured that he wanted to eat ice cream; Tuan Tuan in the wet rainforest This is the first time I saw a blood-sucking leech... I drove the ducklings into the water, picked up eggs in the chicken coop, swung the fishing rod without catching a single fish, and fell on my ass when I pulled the radish...
Dad and Daddy led the way, and Tuantuan opened his eyes every day, looking forward to some new items to play today. After shaking the honey from the flower field, Tuantuan licked his little hands that became sweet with honey, and he was reluctant to wash his little hands.
"Father, don't wash your hands." Tuantuan blinked and begged softly.
Auston pushed the child's shoulders, "It's not allowed, and it's not allowed to eat hands and hands, dirty, full of bacteria."
Tuantuan put her little hands behind her back, "It's not dirty, it's sweet."
"That's because you just grabbed the honey with your hands, little fool."
Tuantuan pouted, "No washing!"
"This is absolutely impossible. Before shaking the honey, you touched countless flowers in the flower field, played in the mud, and touched the puppy. You grabbed the puppy's hind legs and dragged it to walk. It hurts." Oston recalled what Tuantuan had done today, and found that it was so colorful, "I grabbed you to wash your hands in the flower field, and you felt clean after dipping in the water twice, and then saw grandpa shaking Honey, just grab the honey with your little hands and eat."
Ryan, who was behind them, stuck out his tongue in disgust, "..." Tuantuan took the initiative to let him lick the honey on his hands, and share the sweetness with his father. The old father was so moved that he burst into tears, and immediately licked One bite, it is really sweet! Now, the mood is a bit complicated... I even want to pour a glass of water and rinse my mouth.
After washing his hands while grabbing Tuan Tuan, Oston took the child to the French window. Ryan was already sitting there with a glass of water. Seeing the Strawberry Daifuku, Durian Melaleuca and Mango Mochi on the table, Tuan Tuan shouted happily With a cry, he rushed over cheeringly, stepped on a small stool and sat obediently on the chair, looking at Dad expectantly, hoping to get a cup of hot chocolate.
Ryan looked at Oston, Oston nodded, and the child might not be able to accept what he was about to say later, so let him give him some food to make him feel better. Ryan put down his teacup, and when he raised his hand, he patted Tuantuan's head, "Honey, how about chocolate milk?"
Tuantuan nodded vigorously, and said sweetly, "Thank you, Daddy."
"You're welcome, baby."
With a glass of sweet chocolate milk for each person, the family of three enjoyed a peaceful afternoon. After Tuantuan had finished eating the second strawberry daifuku, Auston said with difficulty: "Tuantuan, Dad and Daddy are going to work tomorrow."
"Hmm." Tuantuan still didn't know what this meant, and looked at his father who was talking innocently with clear eyes, not understanding why the expression on his father's face looked so sad.
Auston bent his lips and smiled weakly, "Stay here, listen to grandpa and grandma, don't make trouble with grandma, you know?"
"Oh." Tuantuan no longer stared at the dessert helplessly, his young heart seemed to know that something big was about to happen, he called softly: "Dad..."
"Why are you so quiet?" Alston rubbed the child's head distressedly.
Tuantuan shook his head, he had too little language to describe his current feelings, he opened his arms towards Dad, "hug."
Auston held the child on his lap, and wrapped his arms around the child's soft belly, "Tuantuan, Dad and Daddy are going to work and fight bad guys, so we can't take Tuantuan with us. Together, we miss Dad and Dad, we can video, holographic communication is the same as meeting real people. Tuantuan... "
"Asleep." Ryan said helplessly.
Auston still had a lot to say, "...forget it, the child is still young, let's go straight away tomorrow."
"Well, soon, after this joint operation, we can apply for a one-month vacation, and we can take the regiment with us when we return to the Gamma military base." The military base has a family area, which is provided for the families of soldiers accompanying the army to live in. It also provides space for dual-military families to take care of their children. After returning to the military base Ryan, they can apply for occupancy and accompany their children to grow up during the most critical years of their growth.
Auston hugged Luan Tuan, who was sleeping like a little pig, and nodded gently.
On the second day, while Tuantuan was still asleep, Auston and Ryan had already left Planting Star in a small starship, leaving Dafu and the nanny robot behind. With familiar company, Tuantuan would not feel the gap all at once. At nine o'clock, when Tuantuan woke up, he yawned a little and got dressed with the help of the nanny robot. He refused the embrace of the nanny robot and stumbled into the bathroom. The next step was to help, brush his teeth and wash his face, he Can't do it alone.
The energetic Tuantuan rushed out of the bedroom, shouting briskly, "Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad..." Only after calling three times, Dad would give Dad a chance. Come down from upstairs, and Tuantuan went to find Dad and Dad by the French window , there was no one, so I went outside the house, there was no one, turned around and walked into the house to the kitchen, still nothing... Tuantuan was a little flustered, with tears rolling in his eyes, he wiped away the tears with his backhand, stubbornly did not cry, murmured Muttering, "Dad, Dad, Dad... Dad."
"round and round."
Seeing grandma, Tuantuan finally held back tears and was picked up by grandma, "Daddy, daddy, no, no, not here."
"Tuantuan is hungry, let's have breakfast first."
"Father." Tuantuan cried out in a crying voice.
"Father and daddy went to work, I said yesterday, do you still remember?"
Tuantuan looked at grandma with teary eyes, "Work?"
"That's right, go outside and beat up bad guys, does Tuantuan know what a bad guy is?"
"Bad bastard!" Tuantuan knew a little bit.
"Yes, it's Eggy who does bad things." Paley calmly cooperated with his grandson, and carried the child to the dining table. The small wontons in chicken soup have been prepared, and they can be eaten at any time. One bite at a time, it is a mixture of chicken and cod Oston specifically said before leaving that Tuantuan likes to eat this now. He and Ryan made a lot of delicious food last night and put them in the refrigerator. Small noodles, fried milk, etc., eating familiar food, Tuantuan will definitely feel better when his father and father are not around.
"Father and Daddy, we just go to fight the bad guys, and we'll go home when we're done. Wait a minute, okay?"
"How many days?" Tuantuan asked grandma with tears still in the corners of his eyes.
Paley looked at the approaching husband in surprise. He didn't expect that Tuantuan would ask this. Shouldn't such an older child have a vague sense of time? The husband and wife suddenly thought that when their son was a child, he was so calm and calm as if he was not a child. With Ryan proofreading, they gradually stopped being surprised by Tuantuan's intelligence, and even felt proud from the bottom of their hearts. clever.
"About a month," Paley said.
"Probably what? What is Yue?" Tuantuan didn't understand these things very well, and curled up his fingers in frustration to pick at his small face.
Paley said: "Tuantuan eats one strawberry Daifuku every day, and it takes about a month to eat these."
Paley motioned for Tuantuan to look up, and Tuantuan saw grandpa standing next to the refrigerator, with lovely strawberry Daifuku neatly placed in the drawer, each of which was bigger than Tuantuan's fist, and it was Ryan who made it for Mom and Dad I took it out to comfort the child when the child was crying, but I didn't expect to use it for counting. There are twenty-six Strawberry Daifuku, eating one a day is definitely not enough for a month, but don't be afraid, there are strawberry tarts and strawberry ice cream that Tuantuan likes on the lower floor, and the total number is definitely more than forty.
If Tuantuan saw so many strawberry Daifuku in the past, he would have cheered and jumped on it with a giggle, but today he didn't. He pinched his fingers, thought for a while and said, "Two... three, eat them all." After eating several of them, can dad and dad come back sooner
Paley and her husband looked at each other, smiled and said to Tuantuan, "You can't do it, little naughty, you can only eat one a day. After eating all the snacks, Dad and Daddy will go home."
"Okay." Tuantuan sighed, that was all he could do.
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Ryan and Auston, who left the planting star E69, brought the lightest luggage and two artificial intelligences, and arrived at the military base of the Legion of Glory - Omega Military Base at the fastest speed. They announced that they would conduct military exercises of three legions, namely Admiral Tolkien's Legion of Glory, Admiral Dalton's Golden Cross Legion, and General Ivan's Baikal Legion. He is the oldest and most experienced of the three. Being old does not mean that he has a gentle personality and a gentle way of doing things. On the contrary, Admiral Ivan, who is over 200 years old, has a bad temper, as if he drank three tons of vodka anytime, anywhere.
The high-level executives held a meeting, and Ryan, who was promoted to lieutenant colonel and served as Auston's exclusive mecha restorer, was not eligible to participate.
The "joint military exercise" is not held at the Omega military base. A military base cannot withstand the toss of three legions. It must be an open star field, the junction of the Storm Star Field, the Red Coral Star Field and the Nutcracker Star Field. It is a blank area. The universe is vast, the star field is vast, and there are too many unexplored places. This junction is one of them. It is called a blank area. The standard on the military map is X area, which means unknown. According to the practice of military exercises in the past, it is the most normal thing to choose to conduct military exercises in blank areas. There are two purposes. First, conducting exercises in blank areas will not hurt innocent people; Maybe it will also discover new star fields, new planets, new species...
The purpose of this exercise was not pure, it was a incidental exercise against the hidden forces of the pirate Starscream, it was emphasized that the exercise was incidental, and it was to find a good excuse for the three legions to get together.
Ryan heard from Auston that the reason why he wanted to gather three legions was because the hidden stronghold of the pirate Starscream in the Storm Star Field, which was within the radiation range of the Legion of Glory, was in the blank area. It is a three-way zone, but once touched, it will affect the nerves of all parties. Rather than causing unnecessary troubles, it is better for the three parties to join together.
Ryan doesn't know what the leader is doing. After he entered the Omega military base, he went to find the team of the Golden Cross who had already arrived here in advance. A team of 200 people had already arrived here in advance. There is a mecha, which is Oston's codename zero... The name followed the artificial intelligence, so now this big steel body uses the original name, machine zero, and two other mechas will meet with it in two days, The brand-new animal-shaped mecha is enough to attract attention.
"Lane!"
Ryan, who opened the door and entered the restaurant, saw his familiar companions, Derrick, Harriet, Jack, and Fan Lunting. As the top fighters of the Golden Cross, they were selected to represent the Golden Cross in the legion-to-legion battle. Friendly early discussion.
Ryan smiled and waved, and walked over to his companion.
The decoration style of the Legion of Glory tends to be calm and graceful. The paintings that can be seen everywhere in the restaurant are the best proof. They can cultivate their sentiment and gentle personality. Walking in it, people will become calmer without knowing it, just like the members of the Legion of Glory Like General Tolkien, the Legion of Honor has learned the same style of doing things from top to bottom.
The resolute, capable and decisive young men of the Golden Cross came here, and they were not ashamed to run fast, and always felt that they were out of place with this place. The coffee provided by the restaurant has a lot of sugar and milk, as well as more tea, green tea, black tea, oolong tea... It is even more advocating tea drinking than the Great Wall Starfield, which is dominated by Chinese culture.
At the round table, Ryan opened the only vacant seat and sat down. Derrick and Fan Lunting were on the left and right, and Jack, whose face was a little dark after seeing him, was on the opposite side. As soon as he sat down, Jack couldn't wait to ask questions. "You and the general are husband and wife?!" The tone was quite aggressive.
"Isn't this something that the whole empire knows?" Ryan froze for a moment, he and Oston had already made it public.
Jack's face darkened even more, and he said in a low voice, "I know, I'll ask again." His face was dark because he contacted his friends excitedly and unbelievably. He was extremely calm, and he was so excited and shocked that he couldn't get up and down. After a year, when he thought about it, Jack still felt like he had swallowed a dozen eggs raw, dangling around, feeling that the eggs were being passed in his body. .
"Never had the right opportunity to tell you, sorry," Ryan said.
Jack: "It's nothing." He just had some emotions, and his emotions disappeared after he said it. In fact, now that he thinks about it, the reason why the general acted with them in the match between Frozen Grassland & Moon Bay is that The interaction with Ryan is so natural because they are husband and wife, and he has never thought about it in this direction.
Friends met, and after talking for a while, they got down to business. When they talked about the military exercise, Ryan, who knew the inside story, didn't say much. This is a secret of military operations. Say sorry inside.
"The three-party military exercise is big enough. Our opponents are the Legion of Glory and the Baikal Legion. The former seeks stability, while the latter is violent. I feel like we have no opponent." Derrick spread his hands and jokingly said, "It's a win."
"Haha, it's a good thing there is no one else around. If the group of bears from Baikal were here, they would definitely fight with you now." Harriet threw a twist at Derrick, "Your wife knows that you were killed outside. If someone hits you, you will feel distressed."
Derrick raised his eyebrows, took the twist and put it in his mouth, "Lonely people don't understand the beauty of married people, you're right, Ryan."
"It's very beautiful." Ryan chuckled. He was about to say something more when his personal terminal rang, and he lowered his head and quickly scanned the received information.
When he received the message, other people also received it. It is expected that the content of the message should be the same.
Derrick stood up first, "Let's go." When acting collectively, he automatically became the captain of the five-person team.
The content of the message was sent by Alston, calling everyone to the meeting room No. 3 on the 15th floor of the complex building of the Omega military base. They arrived after 20 minutes by transportation. When they went there, there were already ten people standing there. People stand on two sides, clearly distinguishing each other. You can tell where they come from by looking at their behavior and appearance without looking at their clothes.
After Ryan and his party entered, they received common attention from both parties.
The door of the conference room closed behind him, and three generals walked in, the gentle uncle Tolkien, the bearded General Ivan, and the handsome General Dalton with a faint smile on his face. You can judge your personality by your posture. Admiral Ivan came in and before he got to the front, he said impatiently, "Sit and sit, let's talk about business now, there are three pirate gathering points that need you to sneak in and find out information. "
"General, what news are you looking for?" The Belgar Legion stood up and asked, "Do you want to deal with the pirates and catch them all?"
As soon as these words came out, all the soldiers were a little bit excited.
"It would be nice to catch them all at once, but pirates are like weeds. They kill one after another. How can we kill them all?" Admiral Ivan turned his head and asked the people on both sides, "How do you say that in Chinese? coming?"
"'Wildfires never burn out, and the spring breeze blows again,'" Alston said.
"That's right, that's right, that's it, damn pirates." The three generals had already walked to the front, and General Ivan said, "We're dealing with the pirate leader Starscream this time. Admiral Jin and the others conducted a large-scale siege and killed a group of them, but Starscream has a secret stronghold that provides them with continuous power. With such a stronghold, the siege is useless. Admiral Tolkien has an informant But the informant died and did not give specific coordinates before he died. Now I send you to the three pirate gathering points to inquire about the specific coordinates. Admiral Tolkien received news here that there is Starscream People will go there, but I can't be sure which one of the three, or none of the three, and I'll leave it to the goddess of luck to see if I can meet you."
After I finished talking to Admiral Ivan, Tolkien and Auston made some simple additions from the side, telling the coordinates of the three pirate gathering points, what characteristics the pirates need to pay attention to, and how everyone is doing. camouflage etc.
In the end, Orston looked at everyone and said, "This is not a competition. You don't need to confront and compare. The only thing I ask of you is to complete the task and come back safely."