"Fireworks, didn't you always say that you wanted to see brother Xu Le?"
At the dining table, Mrs. Zhong looked at her daughter gently and said softly. She felt very puzzled about her daughter's silence today. Although she seldom heard the words "Brother Xu Le" from her daughter's mouth in the past two years, it should not be the case even if it is a common etiquette for entertaining guests. It's not polite.
"Yeah." Zhong Yanhua held the long chopsticks in his small hands, and worked hard to plan the Changyang fragrant rice in the bowl. The tip of his cute and straight nose hummed, but he still ignored Xu Le, who was a little embarrassed across the table.
Mrs. Zhong reluctantly looked at Xu Le and smiled apologetically, so she had no choice but to let her daughter go. After all, they were adults, and they didn't take this matter seriously, so they naturally changed the subject.
When Fatty Tian was eating, he had a delicate feeling that was completely opposite to his body shape. He took a sip of red wine, put down the wine glass, patted Xu Le on the shoulder with a smile, and said, "I heard that you took care of Du Shaoqing."
"Uh... military exercises." Xu Le replied naively, not suited to the other party's direct enthusiasm.
"I mean on the playground, when the kid was about to go crazy, he was blocked by you." Fatty Tian said loudly with a smile: "Very good, I appreciate you very much!"
Xu Le was speechless, thinking that he used his rage to suppress the iron-blooded Du Shaoqing.
"It's a pity that it's not direct enough. You should learn from me. A few years ago, I directly beat this ice snow shemale into a snow pig demon..." Thinking about the past, Fatty Tian sighed leisurely and proudly.
Hearing the two terms Ice Snow Shemale and Pig Demon, and thinking of Du Shaoqing's unsmiling image of a military officer, Xu Le finally forgot the sad indifference caused by the little watermelon, and almost laughed out loud. Out of the corner of his eyes, he glanced at the round hand on his shoulder that looked like a fat steamed bun, and the cute fat fingers like a mutant orchid, but his smile turned into a faint fear - if this Fatty Tian made a fuss, that Du The teacher is only afraid that he will really suffer a lot.
"What's the result? You've been locked up in a small dark room for three months, your military service has been taken captive to the end, and you can only be a colonel when you leave the army."
Mrs. Zhong thought of the old things in the past, she couldn't help but shook her head with a wry smile, but there was a touch of unnatural complex emotions on her cheeks.
Listening to the violent incidents of these romantic figures, Xu Le suddenly thought that the tiger in Xilin had suppressed Du Shaoqing and his Tie Qi division for many years. Fatty Tian's shot back then may also have something to do with this. The relationship between the Zhong family and Du Shaoqing Everyone knows that the relationship between the two is extremely bad. He made Du Shaoqing suffer a loss during the exercise. Could it be because of this that Commander Xilin Zhong has no reason to appreciate him
Just when he was thinking of this, the middle-aged housekeeper who had brought Xu Leying into the villa came over. At this time, the dishes were finished, and there were other reasons for her appearance. Mrs. Zhong listened quietly, took off the napkin, stood up to greet Xu Le, and walked into the attached office on the side of the first floor.
"Today is the Autumn Festival, so it's probably the boss's phone call." Fatty Tian explained with a smile, but a flash of doubt flashed between his brows. If it was a family phone call, the sister-in-law should come with fireworks.
Xu Le could not have imagined this. In his opinion, Commander Zhong was guarding the front line for the Federation. Because of the continuous conflicts and wars with the Empire, he could not be reunited with his family. It was normal to have a phone call with his family during today's festive season. Just thinking that today is the end of autumn, Mrs. Zhong invited herself to be a guest, which is really rare.
Who knew that after a while, the door of the side office opened, and Fatty Tian also left the restaurant. It seemed that Commander Zhong had something to say to him.
At this time, there were only Xu Le and Zhong Yanhua left in the restaurant.
If it was before entering the villa, Xu Le would not resist being alone with the little girl. He doesn't hate being afraid of children, not to mention the person he is most familiar with and misses the most in the Xilin Zhong family, the little watermelon girl, who came here today. Except for the autumn feast, most of the reasons... just wanted to see her and ask if the little girl has been doing well in the past few years, how is her study, and whether she still doesn't like to eat like before.
However, the silent resistance during the meal and the undisguised indifference and pride on the face of the young daughter of the Zhong family made Xu Le's heart feel a little uncomfortable and sad. Although he could comfort himself, she was only a child after all, but this This huge gap between self-perception and reality still made him feel embarrassed and lost.
There was silence at the dining table, Xu Le didn't know what to say to the little girl across the table, he felt a little amused and sad, in the absolute silence, as if he was angry with an eight-year-old girl.
So he had to bow his head and concentrate on the delicious food on the plate, cutting the seven-ripe bison with a silver knife, but he remembered that three years ago, on the ancient bell spacecraft, he had shamelessly told the young Watermelon said that she will take her to eat real meat in the future...
Suddenly, Xu Le felt as if someone was looking at him. The mysterious power in his body made him have a sensitive air reaction to the visits around him. He slowly stopped the sliding of the silver knife in his hand and raised it vigilantly. Started.
So he saw the clear eyes of Zhong Yanhua's incomparably serious child.
On that cute and delicate face, there was no longer the indifference that was deliberately refusing people thousands of miles away, but only the curiosity of a little girl, and those eyes that were getting bigger and bigger.
Xu Le's small eyes couldn't help but widen, wondering why the little watermelon looked at him like this.
Neither of the two said a word, just staring at each other inexplicably on both sides of the quiet dining table.
Seemingly staring like this, Zhong Yanhua's extremely clean eyes suddenly flashed a cute and cunning peculiar to children.
It seems that it took a long, long time for the little girl to connect the young officer across the dining table with the already vague but very kind face of Shu Piao three years ago. Or maybe she has already confirmed the dining table. Who is the person on the other side, just pretending.
But in a word, it has been indifferent until this time, and the little girl smiled sweetly, with endless joy, and whispered: "Brother Xu Le."
The voice is very clear and crisp, like the dewdrops on a small white flower just born in the ground moistening the tender throat. This name, which he hadn't heard for a long time, accompanied by a clear and moving child's voice, touched Xu Le's eardrums and also touched his heart.
He looked at the little girl across from the dining table in amazement, watching the black hair cut into a straight line swaying playfully, as if he had returned to three years ago, in the simple cabin of the spacecraft, he was still She used a towel to bathe and wash this little girl's hair.
"Brother Xu Le." Zhong Yanhua frowned cutely and shouted again seriously.
Xu Le finally came to his senses. Although he didn't understand why the little watermelon pretended to be unfamiliar to him earlier, when he was called by these two crunchy older brothers, his heart that was fading before getting old suddenly became gentle. He smiled and narrowed his eyes into a crooked moon, just like the eyebrows in the S1 night sky.
"Take me out." Zhong Yanhua looked at him earnestly across the dining table, pursing his lips forcefully, playing a lovely firmness and perseverance.
When two people, one big and one small, met in the starlight, the little girl blurted out: Protect me.
Xu Le stared blankly at the little girl across the dining table, and roughly understood something, such as why, in front of Mrs. Zhong and the uncle Tian, Little Watermelon had to be indifferent to herself, not showing any enthusiasm at all, as if she had completely forgotten What happened back then... Almighty Creator, three years have passed, and this child is already eight years old. Could it be that he still hasn't gotten rid of the bad habit of being cocky!
No matter how thick the nerves in Xu Le's body were, it was difficult for him to resist this sudden shock. He was able to communicate with the charter Guanghui, and the brain that put down countless structural drawings was about to explode with a buzzing sound. With a crisp snap, he slammed down under the table.
"What's the matter?" Madam Zhong and Fatty Tian ended the call with Xilin and walked out of the office with a solemn expression, just in time to see this scene.
When the elders came to the scene, Zhong Yanhua returned a faint expression of indifference and pride, and gently scooped the thick soup in the bowl in front of him, like a rude daughter of a noble family.
"It's nothing." Xu Le couldn't bear to expose Little Watermelon's family plan, let her be disciplined, and said with a wry smile, but at this time his mood was much better than before, at least he knew that Little Watermelon had not forgotten himself , and... I still trust myself as before, and even this kind of big thing, I only trust myself to do it.
Xu Le naturally wouldn't take the little watermelon to the house. He just quietly shook his head helplessly at the little girl while Madam Zhong was not paying attention, and then left his personal contact information on the Internet.
Zhong Yanhua sat on the sofa with an indifferent expression and no energy. After talking to his mother, he went up the stairs, but before entering the house, he turned his head and glared at Xu Le angrily, it was just the anger of the little girl, no matter how he went It looks so cute.
When Mrs. Zhong sent Xu Le out of the door, she said a few words apologetically, and then said after a moment of silence: "The news I received just now, the Joint Chiefs of Staff has decided that Du Shaoqing's Seventh Iron Division will enter Xilin."
Xu Le was shocked, and only then did he know the real content of the previous call.
The summoned taxi stopped by the side of the villa. Xu Le rejected Mrs. Zhong's proposal to send him a car in advance, and after saying goodbye, he sat in the co-pilot's seat.
Xu Le couldn't help but smile bitterly when he thought of the cute looks of the little watermelon people on the dining table. He couldn't understand why the little watermelon was still thinking of leaving his family at such a young age, although Commander Zhong rarely met with him. His daughters are together, but it's clear Mrs Chung is a pretty good mother.
Maybe it's because of loneliness? Xu Le looked at the mottled and messy autumn leaves outside the window, thought of Tai Zhiyuan in the H1 district, and Zou Yu. The children of the aristocratic family were not having a good time. He thought that if he could come back alive from the front line in the future, he would take more time to accompany him. this kid.
At this moment, he heard some noise in the back seat, and looked back vigilantly, only to see that the chair in the back row was pushed down, and a little girl in a blue student uniform came out with a dusty face.
Zhong Yanhua worked hard to climb to the seat and sat down, looked at Xu Le in front of him and smiled, and said, "Brother Xu Le, I am here."
Xu Le's expression froze, and this crisp child's voice sounded like thunder in his ears.