The Road Home

Chapter 13: Chen Xiaozhao returns home (3)

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The heart was blocked a little dry.

He was strolling in the factory building, and the light from the rows of cool white lamps on the beams dragged the shadows away.

Finally, he found a car that looked pleasing to the eye, rummaged around for a pile of tools, and propped it up with a jack. dismantle.

At almost four o'clock, I checked out a lot of small problems outside the insurance, and my arm was covered with black oil, and I did another 200 pull-ups to reach the beam of the factory gate.

Back at the house, Qin Xiaonan kicked the quilt long ago.

Lu Yanchen stuffed the little arms and legs back, and began to pack Qin Xiaonan's suitcase. There were several new books under his clothes, which Gui Xiao bought. The only unsealed one was Ben Ying's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", which he took out and went to bed to read.

When they first joined the army, their English degraded greatly. At that time, the old squadron commander often taught them that the core special police officers who performed tasks during the Olympics had to know the daily communication terms of the six countries of English, French, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Spanish. For international competitions, the CET 6 certificate will also be a selection requirement. Although these have nothing to do with them on the border, he listened to his heart and picked up the lost foreign languages again, usually mixed with Russian and Mongolian to learn. After all, he is someone who has taken the college entrance examination. Although the chemical and physical formulas are placed in front of him, he and they must not know anyone, and it is not a problem to hone foreign languages.

He wrapped Qin Xiaonan next to the heater, turned over twenty pages by the head of the bed, noticed that the child was awake, stared at him, and turned to look at the alarm clock by the bed, it was just half past four.

"Go to sleep," he ordered.

"Want to hear about Aunt Gui Xiao?" Qin Xiaonan was 70% confused and 30% sober, still thinking about Lu Yanchen's lifelong affairs.

He stroked the little head melon seeds, but also helpless: "Go to sleep."

Qin Xiaonan mumbled and turned over, and within half a minute he was wrapped in a quilt and rubbed down: "I'll draw a topographic map of her house for you!"

I wanted to stop it, but the child had already returned barefoot, holding a pen and paper, shivering beside the slightly warm heater, and seemed to draw and talk while drawing.

Lu Yanchen didn't refuse either. He supported his head with one hand and carefully tucked the child's quilt.

Look at the picture on the paper with the light. her home.

Gui Xiao's business trip has more than ten days of itinerary, passing through Guangzhou, Chengdu, Taipei, Macau, and finally to Wuhan.

She usually eats the whole family alone and does not worry about it. She has always traveled around on business trips, but this time she was unwilling to delay outside for an extra hour. Before the last person flew to Wuhan, he insisted that he had an urgent matter to return to Beijing, and a large group of people who were about to have a meeting had an appointment at the airport restaurant. After eating and chatting, I boarded the plane and returned to Beijing. The person in charge summarized it as: a three-hour tour of Wuhan Airport.

There is only one reason for such a hurry. My cousin arranged for Lu Yanchen to meet Qin Xiaonan's new head teacher in the afternoon of the fifth day of the first day.

Gui Xiao left and right were not at ease, so he talked to Lu Yanchen on the phone before boarding the plane.

They hadn't seen each other for almost half a month, and the two only spoke on the phone twice, once before she left Beijing to board the plane, and once when she was on the plane back to Beijing, half a minute before the phone was turned off. Gui Xiao never dared to ask him how his marriage contract with Zhao Minshan was going, thinking that he would tell himself after he had dealt with it.

Fear of crossing that moral line. Perhaps because she had suffered a lot from it, she took the crime of destroying the marriage relationship very seriously.

Even if it is forced, the marriage contract does exist.

It was noon when we arrived in Beijing, and the plane was very good, and it was not late.

Gui Xiao picked up his luggage and followed the passengers from all over the world out of the boarding gate. He looked around, but Lu Yanchen didn't see him, but he saw Xu Yao first. The man wore a casual suit on his arms, and his shirt buttons were meticulously tied to his neckline. He didn't even have a watch, but he wore a wedding ring neatly. Gui Xiao glanced at the ring, it was ordinary, without a brand.

"Find a place to sit, I'm still waiting for someone to pick me up." Gui Xiao approached.

Xu Yao wanted to pick up the box for her, but she didn't let it. The box is small enough to carry by yourself.

Because Xu Yao was about to catch a plane to leave Beijing, the two made an appointment to meet at the airport and sat down at a random coffee shop.

Throwing the backpack on the sofa, she reached out and grabbed the coffee shop's promotional sign, sent the name of the shop to Lu Yanchen, and when the sign was put back in place, she was worried that he would not be able to find it: "Can you describe it to me? Can you tell me how to get here from the parking lot? I'll send it to the person who picks me up."

Xu Yao looked at Gui Xiao like he was mentally ill: "Are you dating a ten-year-old child?"

Gui Xiao shook his head: "He hasn't been to this terminal before, and he probably hasn't been on an ordinary plane."

"Your friend is afraid of flying?"

Gui Xiao shook his head again.

After Xu Yao gave her a brief description, he handed a note to her with the account number, account opening bank and account opening name written on it.

After Gui Xiao sent it to Lu Yanchen according to the route he described, he glanced at the note and put it away. Then I explained to Xu Yao apologetically: "I want to keep a sum of money in my hand recently, and I can't give you all of it. You can only borrow two-thirds of the money first, and wait until a wealth management product expires next month. Can I supply you in time?"

"No problem," the other party nodded, not expecting that he would ask Gui Xiao to borrow money one day, "I just saw you coming out of the exit, and I remembered the first time I saw you when I was a teenager... I didn't expect the little girl to grow up smoothly. Had a good time."

Gui Xiao knew what Xu Yao was referring to, and smiled: "Have you seen a video? There is a very successful Chinese woman who said in an interview that everyone has to work hard to earn some fuck U money, and then they can have it. When the qualifications are unsatisfactory at work, throw a fuck you, resign and quit."

Xu Yao tilted his head and saw Lu Yanchen approaching the store, guessing that this was Gui Xiao and the others.

Gui Xiao sat on the sofa with a high back and couldn't see the person diagonally behind: "I don't want to fuck work, the work is so good, no matter how bad it is, it can make me full of food. I just want to work hard and earn a fuck life money. , no matter what difficulties you encounter in the second half of your life, you don’t have to bend your back to life.”

Xu Yao raised his chin slightly and motioned to Gui Xiao: There is someone behind her.

Gui Xiao followed, and the moment he saw Lu Yanchen, his eyes softened a lot, and he said softly, "I'm afraid you won't be able to find it, so I want to pick you up."

She moved to the side and Lu Yanchen sat down.

Xu Yao saw that Gui Xiao's appearance was quite interesting, and went to look at Lu Yanchen again. As soon as he saw this man, he could make a conclusion that this was a man who had served as a soldier. When I got married a few days ago, I also had a table of guests who were my family's comrades-in-arms, and their spirits were similar to his. Among them were the troops stationed in Hong Kong and the peacekeeping troops. Compared with them, the aura in front of him is deeper and more elusive. Fortunately, it is a small white face type, which can reduce the spirit a lot.

When his thoughts came to this, they were suppressed by Lu Yanchen's awe-inspiring gaze, which made him inexplicably think of the famous Lei Feng saying: Treat the enemy as cruel and ruthless as the harsh winter...

He looked at the clock on the wall of the coffee shop, picked up the coat on the back of the chair, and stood up: "Your idea is good, it's just that girls don't always fuck around, it doesn't sound good. I'm in a hurry here. Come on, let's talk slowly."

Withdrew without a sip of coffee.

With all his thoughts on the man who just arrived, Gui Xiao gently pushed the coffee brought by the waiter to him: "Drink?"

The milk froth in the skim latte swayed slightly, and a little syrupy heart swayed with it.

Lu Yanchen shook his head.

"So you're not used to drinking coffee." She understood.

Lu Yanchen shook his head: "I drink black coffee."

Gui Xiao immediately corrected the mistake: "So you guys also drink coffee."

Lu Yanchen laughed. From these few words, she found that she had a certain misunderstanding of the daily life of the soldiers on the border, and decided not to discuss this issue with her for the time being.

Lu Yanchen didn't speak, she just took the spoon and stirred her cup of coffee silently. A small silver spoon with hollow carving craftsmanship was pinched between the two fingers, making a light sound in the ceramic cup.

In the past two weeks, she just checked the information, just wanted to know more about Lu Yanchen's past, but not to mention the specifics, there were very few news reports. Later, she called and asked the bunch of elementary school classmates, each of them had their own opinions, to the effect that they were no different from ordinary people, and they still liked to play Dota after taking off that layer of skin... But Gui Xiao felt that there should be great differences in each place. Just like the troops stationed on the border of Yunnan are definitely different from those in Hong Kong, and he is guarding the border and fighting terrorism, should it be even more different

It is useless to ask a bunch of messy questions, such as living habits, which are simply blanks in the blanks.

The space under the table was cramped, and his sneakers pressed against her leather toes.

This feeling of being next to each other and leaning against each other is particularly reassuring. Thoughts also drifted.

When they first got together, she was facing the high school entrance examination, and he was also preparing for the college entrance examination.

Afraid of affecting her, Lu Chen never showed any relationship between the two at school, and privately came to see her every day or two at night. Because he was afraid of driving too conspicuously and criticizing her, he always rode there.

From the garage to her aunt's house, it took at least one hour and ten minutes, but she could only see her for one hour.

Every time he came, he would ride a bike with himself to avoid the family area. From the family area to the military area, he passed the dormitory buildings where the cadets and soldiers lived, and then all the way to the end, he stopped at the small gate at the foot of the Yanshan Mountains.

The place is remote, and there are several earthen graves, and it is eerie and terrifying in the middle of the night. She cuddled in his arms, chatted with him, and had to be glanced at by passing patrolmen at any time. At that time, she was thin-skinned. Every time a patrolman passed by, she would cover most of her face with his shoulders. Her face was hot and dry, and she was terribly shy. Looking back now, if Lu Chen wanted to do something intimate with him at that time, he would just take her out of the compound by bicycle, but he never did that.

There are some things when you grow up and mature, and then you will understand if you think about it deeply, who is good and who is bad, and who is good or bad.

The two did not delay much at the airport, and arrived at the agreed place before three o'clock.

My cousin-in-law is a special meeting person. She prepared the gift and told them in the elevator that she went upstairs: flattery must be said, and bitterness must be sold. Of course, the transition of conversation is also essential. environment, the class teacher must pass this level. Outside the teacher's house, my cousin knocked on the door.

Within half a minute, a girl who looked like a college student opened the door. The moment she saw everyone, her polite smiling face froze. Some people were surprised, some couldn't believe it, and they kept turning back: "Mom, mom! Someone is looking for it. Brother-in-law, sister "Come on, there are guests."

After he finished speaking, he kept politely saying to everyone that you don't need to change your shoes, come in quickly. But those eyes flickered, as if there were thousands of words, only staring at Lu Yanchen. Everyone noticed that something was wrong, and they didn't know where it was wrong.

Entering the house, everyone took their seats.

The two sisters murmured and laughed, and the sister kept pushing the gentle brother-in-law with glasses. Qin Xiaonan's head teacher is a female teacher in her fifties. She is very serious. Seeing that her family is so ignorant, she is very angry: "What are you doing?"

"Mom, we saw an acquaintance," my sister explained, nodding to Lu Yanchen on the edge of the sofa, "Excuse me, were you a special police officer?"

"Army|Police." Lu Yanchen corrected.

Is there a difference? The elder sister was stunned for a moment, skipping this unimportant question, and then grabbed her younger sister and talked about their thrilling self-guided tour during the National Day holiday a few years ago.

At that time, the sisters made an appointment with seven or eight classmates to travel to the northwest, and encountered a large number of passengers stranded at the railway station.

At that time, the road team sitting on the sofa brought people to meet another group of police officers to maintain order at the scene. There were many tourists who had waited for more than ten hours that night. People from all over the world were mixed, and in the second half of the night, it was unknown who started the trouble first, and the chaos was about to break out. It is these people who put up a human wall, so that passengers voluntarily queue up and transition to a safe area. These girls didn't take it seriously at first, and they all happily whispered about whether to take advantage of the crowd and bump into this handsome guy who gave orders, and bumped into a romantic relationship...

Until the crowd suddenly broke into a great commotion—

"You were the one who put the gun on my shoulder and put us behind your comrade-in-arms," his sister looked at him. "Do you remember? My classmate has straight hair, very long, up to the waist. I am Curly hair, long brown curls."

That was the first time in her life, and probably the only time that the little girl was forced to touch real guns and live ammunition. It's so hard.

When this sentence was asked, everyone was eagerly waiting for the answer.

The party, Lu Yanchen, under the gaze of seven or eight pairs of eyes, replied calmly, "I don't remember."