Early the next morning, Yu Tu officially returned to work at the Institute and went to Professor Zhang's office first. Professor Zhang knew about his return for a long time, his expression was calm, and he ignored him with a little love.
He sat behind the desk and flipped through a feasibility study report, "I don't listen to what you say. Lao Hu went to Xi'an after a phone call, and is willing to come back? Am I your teacher or is he your teacher?"
The old man looked unhappy, but Yu Tu knew that he was not really angry, and explained in a deep voice, "It has nothing to do with Hu Suo, in Xi'an... I figured it out myself."
"Have you really figured it out?" Professor Zhang closed the report he was reading, pinched his brows, and put away his pretense, "Old Hu asked you to go to work directly when you came back from Xi'an, but you didn't agree, didn't you? Because there are still doubts?"
He sighed and said, "Don't worry about what I said last time. Later, I also thought about it carefully. The environment you are facing now is different from ours. It will be difficult for us, but it is not difficult in any industry or industry. Well, everyone is the same. Instead, we are united and there is no gap in our hearts. It is different now. The cost of living for young people is higher, and the differences between industries are huge. How can people's hearts remain unchanged? What I said was out of touch with reality and human feelings, and I want to apologize to you for that."
Yu Tu was a little touched, "Teacher..."
Professor Zhang interrupted him with a wave of his hand, "So I will understand all your choices. No matter how you choose you, you will be my student. But if someone comes back, he still has doubts and hesitations in his heart, and he can't do anything well."
He asked again: "Have you really figured it out?"
It was clearly what he said, but in the face of such a careful inquiry from the teacher, Yu Tu inexplicably thought of something other than work...
He avoided a direct answer and said in a deep voice, "I will do my best."
Professor Zhang nodded with relief, "That's good, our aerospace team is getting younger and younger. Last year, there was a 35-year-old in Beijing who became the chief engineer. I hope you will work hard in this direction."
Speaking of this, Professor Zhang remembered and asked, "Why did Guan Zai suddenly get sick? Does it matter?"
Yu Tu paused and said, "He said it doesn't matter, and told me to tell my colleagues not to see him."
"This person has such a temper." Professor Zhang was relieved, "Then you should take more of his work, go get busy."
Yu Tu nodded, and was about to go out when the old man stopped him again.
"The female star last time was actually pretty good, and it makes sense to speak..." The old man coughed, his expression a little uncomfortable, but he quickly put on the attitude of a strict teacher, "You must also take care of your own life-long affairs. Think about it, I think she's pretty good, you have to be more active... Okay, go ahead."
Yu Tu did not move, he was silent for a while, then looked up at his teacher, as if asking him, but also asking himself: "Teacher, why should I?"
The old man was stunned for a moment, and then he became angry: "I don't understand, you are a future chief teacher, graduated from a famous school, how can you not be worthy of a female star? Money? There are not many people. Where are you not confident?"
"Our spaceflight is the most romantic profession, how can there be something like you," the old man drove him angrily, "Go quickly, you will be angry when you look at it."
On the first day of returning to work, Yu Tu left the unit after 6 o'clock and went directly to Huashan Hospital without having to work for a long time.
When entering the ward, Guan Zai and his wife Shen Jing were quarreling. Guan Zai saw Yu Tu as if he saw a savior, pointed his head at Yu Tu and said, "Ask him yourself if he has a girlfriend, how can I not care about promoting your junior sister... Oh no, introduce."
His wife glared at him, then turned to Yu Tu, "How long has it been since you ate at my house last time? You have a girlfriend in less than two months?"
Yu Tu paused for a moment, then nodded and said cooperatively, "Yes."
"Where's the photo, take a look."
Of course Yu Tu couldn't show it, and his wife said angrily, "If you don't have it, you don't have it. If you don't like it, you don't like it. Do you need to be so unscrupulous?"
Guan Yu was speechless and looked at Yu Tu with condemnation, "You are so bragging that you say that girls like you, you don't even have a photo?"
It didn't mean that Tu replied, he flattered his wife again, "Wife, let me tell you, Lao Yu is actually a scumbag when he looks honest. I was deceived by him before, but he kept vigil these few days before I found out the truth. The introduction of your junior sister also harmed your junior sister.”
Yu Tu raised his spirits and participated in the topic: "How did I fail?"
Guan Zai said triumphantly, "You watched female stars' videos more than once in the middle of the night. I saw them all. Is this what a serious man does?"
Yu Tu frowned slightly, but he didn't deny it: "I'm wearing headphones... did I wake you up?"
Guan Zai said: "No, I slept too much during the day and couldn't sleep at night. I woke up and saw it. What is the name of that female star? She is quite famous."
Shen Jing looked at Yu Tu, quite surprised and interested, "Yu Tu, do you still like celebrities? I really can't tell, which female celebrity?"
Yu Tu replied with a normal expression, "Qiao Jingjing."
Guan Zai hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, it's her. Look, admit it, I'll say it's unreliable. You're still chasing stars at the age of 30. It can be seen that she's a womanizer, and she's not as honest and cute as me."
Guan Zai Hu Kan was still in high spirits as before, but in the end, he was weak, and after a while, he spoke less and less, and finally fell asleep quietly. The ward, which was bustling just now, suddenly fell silent.
Shen Jing stared at his pale face quietly for a while, then stood up and said to Tu, "Let's go out."
Sitting on the chair outside the ward, Shen Jing explained to him, "Just now I deliberately joked with Guan, don't take it to heart, I don't want him to think..."
She didn't go on.
Yu Tu said, "I understand."
Shen Jing forced a smile, "Actually, I don't want to introduce my junior sister to you."
Her tone was very calm, "What should I do if people complain about me when I turn back? You and Guan are in the same situation, you don't see anyone all day long, you only know about work and work, the longest time you spend half of the year away from home, and the other half every day. work overtime."
Yu Tu used to hear Shen Jing complain that Guan was too busy at work to take care of home, and every time he went to Guan for dinner, Shen Jing always had to repeat it. But at that time, she was smiling, complaining was not really complaining, but a pleasure.
But now, it's really heartbreaking. She murmured: "Speaking doesn't count. It's okay, in the future, when he is more powerful, he will apply to take me to the launch site to watch his works fly into space with his own eyes... He always lies to me, and his words don't count... "
Shen Jing said repeatedly, but in the end she couldn't hold it any longer, she covered her face, and her tears fell heavily.
Yu Tu was silent.
This kind of situation has been played out continuously in the past few days, how strong Shen Jing is in front of him, and how fragile he is when he can't see it, it seems that it will collapse anytime, anywhere. At first, he would still comfort him, but gradually he understood that any verbal comfort was too pale and would have no effect. What Shen Jing needed was not comfort, but venting.
He leaned his head back on the back of the chair, stared at the ceiling of the hospital in a trance, and suddenly remembered the figure that had been pressing in his heart for a day.
Thinking of the light in her eyes dying out, thinking of her saying, "I'll never ask you why again."
Then he turned around, stepped on high heels, and walked away, step by step, firmly and proudly.
Looking at her back at that moment, there were many crazy thoughts in his mind, such as rushing up to grab her, hug her, and lock her in his arms...
But then, what can he give her
Maybe not even the most basic care.
After a while, Shen Jing regained her calm. Yu Tu handed her a tissue, and she wiped away her tears. "I'm sorry, let you listen to me complaining every day, I'm not really complaining about him."
"I just saw him being so devoted and serious, but I thought we still have a lot of time. When we get old, we have a lot of time, but now we don't have it."
Yu Tu only said at this time: "The doctor said that there is great hope for a cure."
Shen Jing shook his head: "You don't understand."
She didn't say any more, looked at the phone, stood up and said, "Shut it up and said that he has picked up the child to go home, and he will come over in a while. He will be vigilant tonight. It was really hard for you a while ago."
Guan Zhu is Guan Zai’s younger brother, a freelance photographer. He had been running abroad all the time, and only came back yesterday.
Yu Tu also stood up, "It should be."
When he woke up, there was no sound in the ward. Yu Tu stood against the wall opposite the bed, with his head down, not knowing what he was thinking.
The patient in the next bed was discharged from the hospital this morning. He was usually too noisy, but now he found that there was still some movement in the ward. He coughed, Yu Tu raised his head, "Awake?"
"Well. You haven't gone back yet? Where's Ah Jing?"
"Sister-in-law has gone home to look after the child. She hasn't arrived yet. I'll wait until he arrives before leaving." Yu Tu shook the bed and poured him a glass of warm water.
Guan Zai took a few sips slowly, "I just fell asleep, did your sister-in-law cry again?"
Yu Tu took the cup and put it back on the table, without answering.
Guan Zai sighed: "The eye circles are always red, and he is still pretending in front of me, stupidly."
"You're not stupid, you've been ill until now."
A trace of regret appeared on his face. "I usually have some minor illnesses and minor pains. I don't know how serious it is, otherwise I would have come earlier." He looked at Yu Tu, "Don't you do this? Now cancer is not a terminal disease. I checked it, and I got this kind of cure. Hopes are high, my willpower will definitely win.”
Yu Tu nodded, "Okay, I believe you."
"You officially went back to work today?"
"Ok."
"Not leaving?"
"No."
"because I?"
"Don't have such a big face."
Guan Zai smiled and said, "Don't come to the hospital in the future, you're going to start to be too busy, blah blah blah... busy flying."
When it came to this topic, he explained some problems at work again, and then again urged, "Don't tell the people in the unit about me first, as long as Hu knows it, I don't want to deal with Xiaomeng and the others now. "
"I know."
"I won't be able to work for at least two years. I'll leave it to you anyway."
Yu Tu gave a "um" and said plainly, "Don't worry."
It was almost eleven o'clock when he got home, and Yu Tu walked to the sofa and sat down, feeling exhausted from the bottom of his heart. Zhai Liang happened to come out of the bathroom with his mobile phone, and when he saw him, he jumped in front of him with a strange cry.
"You're finally back? Why didn't you reply to my WeChat." He hurriedly opened a video on his mobile phone and handed it to Yu Tu, "Just posted it in the class group, everyone is discussing it, what's going on? "
Yu Tu's eyes slowly shifted to his mobile phone. In the video, he and Qiao Jingjing were standing on the KPL stage to be interviewed by the host.
Zhai Liang squatted on the edge of the sofa and looked at him: "I thought about it, could it be... 'It can be seen everywhere on the street'?"
Yu Tu involuntarily took the phone in his hand, his eyes fell, and the camera just gave Qiao Jingjing a close-up, she smiled at the camera.
So he also bent the corner of his mouth, put the phone on the coffee table, stood up and said, "Never see you again."