After dinner, Yu Tu went out for a walk with his parents. On the way, acquaintances kept asking, "My son is back." This is the case in small cities. The neighbors are very familiar with each other, and there is no sense of distance.
After strolling around in the nearby small park for two laps, Yu's father was stopped by a card friend. He glanced at his wife and children, and was about to refuse, but his mother said, "Go ahead."
Yu dad happily went. It's enough for my son to watch it for a few hours, but it's still very attractive to play cards.
Yu mother smiled and shook her head. The two walked for a while, and Yu's mother suddenly asked, "Do you have anything on your mind?"
Yu Tu was not surprised that she would ask such a question. In the afternoon, he was too obviously out of shape, and his mother was always keen. He was silent for a while and said, "Before I went home last time, I told the unit to resign."
There was a hint of surprise in Yu's mother's eyes, and after a long sigh, she said, "Mom always thinks that you are the most like your uncle. When you were a child, you admired him very much, and often bragged to the children that my uncle was the one who launched the rocket."
"Our brothers and sisters, your uncle is the smartest, but it is also the hardest in comparison. He lives in the northwest all the year round and can't take care of his family. Once, your grandfather fell ill and almost passed, and we couldn't get in touch with him. Where did the communication develop now. Finally, your grandfather was rescued, and we also contacted him and asked him to come back, but he hesitated for a long time and said no, since Dad is healed, he will wait until the mission is over before returning. The mission is too important to leave.”
"It took another month for him to come back to see your grandfather. The brothers and sisters were all angry and cold to him. At that time, a cousin came to visit and scolded him for being unfilial. Your uncle was scolded and dared not say anything. When you were still young, you suddenly asked her, 'Auntie, did my cousin go to work in the United States?'"
"Your aunt said this the most. She said yes immediately, and told you to study and work abroad in the future. But you said, 'The cousin went to the United States to work for several years and didn't come back. Why don't you say he is not filial?'"
When my mother said this, she couldn't help laughing.
Yu Tu also smiled, he still remembered this incident, and the awkward atmosphere after he asked this sentence. But after that, everyone's attitude towards uncle returned to normal.
Sometimes it's not that relatives don't understand each other, but just being close is inevitable.
Yu's mother said: "At that time, I thought, yes, I can't accompany my parents as well. Everyone who goes abroad is envious and praised. Like your uncle who stayed in the Northwest all the year round, but was said to be unfilial and not worth it... What is this? What's the truth? We are a group of adults, and it's not as clear as you, a ten-year-old child."
Yu Tu joked, "I've been smart since I was a kid."
Yu mother patted him.
"I understand a lot of truths, but when it's my turn, I still have to be confused. One of the things that Mom regrets most is that the college entrance examination will force you to apply for finance. At that time, I thought, my son's high grades, of course, must Apply for the most popular major with the highest score, otherwise the high score will not be wasted? I regretted it later when I found out that you secretly studied two majors, how much hard work you have wasted."
"In the past few years, when I've gotten older, I've been wearing it even more. What is said in the TV series is that the most important thing for people is to be happy. If you like money, you can make money, and if you think money is not so important, you can do things you are interested in. I know yourself. You must be reluctant to do this, you will want to leave, is it because I was sick that time?"
She stopped Yu Tu's answer, "You, you must be thinking too much. I don't know how you figured it out and went back, but Mom wants to tell you, don't think about what you want us to do, you take care of it. You are enough, we are not old yet. If you still think you are not doing well, think about the son of your father's colleague. "
Yu Tu hesitated for a moment: "...you said the one who lost hundreds of thousands?"
Yu's mother nodded unexpectedly: "Yes."
Yu Tu: "Mom..."
Seeing his helpless expression, Yu's mother laughed again: "I was wrong, this is a bit extreme. But you know what Mom means, you are good enough, others have envied me and your father, don't I always wanted to do my best.”
It seemed that someone had said something similar to him not long ago.
It took a long time for him to say "um".
After chatting with two acquaintances who passed by, Yu's mother suddenly said, "You have to think about your own life-long affairs. I am always asked why my son is not married yet."
Yu Tu was stunned for a moment. His parents rarely urged him on marriage matters.
"Don't ask too much, don't ask for beauty, it's better to take care of people." Yu's mother's typical mother-in-law standard.
Yu Tu walked silently, and Yu's mother thought that he probably hadn't thought about this issue, so she didn't say any more. Unexpectedly, at the door of the house, Yu Tu suddenly called her: "Mom."
Yu mother looked at him.
Yu Tu said, "I probably like it the other way around."
Yu Tu was a little bit like fleeing. He didn't expect that his mother, who had never been in a hurry in matters of his marriage, would burst out with such great enthusiasm because of his words and kept asking all kinds of questions.
But now, what can he say
After a night at home, Yu Tu flew directly from the nearest airport to Dunhuang. After meeting with some members of the test team, they drove to the test site in the desert.
In the desert far away from people, the rhythm of everything slowed down. Yu Tu concentrates on his work every day, both devoted and free.
A few days before the end of the mission, Yu Tu received a call from Guan Zai, thousands of miles away.
"You're doing well there?"
"Well, I finished it a few days ahead of schedule, and I'll do it a second time in a few months."
Shun said with an "oh", "No wonder Mr. Sun has the time to complain to me."
Mr. Sun he said was the person in charge of this test, Yu Tu frowned slightly: "What's the problem?"
Guan Zai sighed and said: "You don't know, our President Sun is a serious and lively person. He has to take care of the big and small at work, and he is also very concerned about the life-long affairs of the young people under him. No, he originally wanted to give them to them. A young man introduced a girl over there in Tianjin. Isn’t it good that Beijing and Tianjin are very close. As a result, it is said that you pretend to be very melancholy and gloomy every day. It was so fascinated that it directly shattered the hopes of other young men."
Guan Zai finished speaking in one breath and criticized: "I said Lao Yu, you didn't have the problem of pretending to be like this before."
Yu Tu: "...I won for five days in a row at the beginning, and they expelled my card."
"It's even more pretentious for you to talk like this. Restrain, pretend to be handsome, and let others live." Guan Zai said solemnly: "The purpose of my call is to warn you..."
"You must continue to pretend like this hahaha." He burst into a burst of laughter on the other end of the phone, "Don't give any hope to the brothers in other institutes, and come back and call you the light of our hospital!"
Yu Tu: "... Is your sister-in-law with you? Give him the phone."
Yu Tu directly expressed his desire not to speak to him.
Shen Jing took the phone.
Yu Tu immediately asked about Xiaguan Zai's condition. Shen Jing's voice was much more relaxed than before, and he did not avoid Xiaguan Zai. He talked about the progress of Xiaguan Zai, saying that it was much better than expected.
"You know so many questions." Guan Zai snatched the phone back again, "Mr. Sun called to ask if you have a girlfriend. How can I reply?"
He chuckled, "How about I say you like your high school classmate Qiao Jingjing?"
Yu Tu was stunned for a moment, then reacted immediately, Guan Zai probably saw the video forwarded in the unit's WeChat group. A while ago, the video of him participating in the KPL competition finally spread to the work group in the institute, which attracted many onlookers. How clever is Guan Zai, he must have thought of what he said in Xi'an.
"Isn't it bragging that people like you? I watched the video and thought that the big girl was really interested in you, but what's the matter with you being a bachelor now?"
Yu Tu smiled bitterly and sat down on the sand with his mobile phone in his hand, "I always thought, what can I give her? If you don't have any money, you might not even be able to accompany her often."
She is very squeamish, likes to be coquettish, wants to be coaxed, and lives every moment delicately and comfortably.
He was full of joy. But one day, when he lowered his head, he found that his palm was so rough that he couldn't reach out and hold such a pearl.
Guan Zai was silent there for a long time, Yu Tu didn't speak, he just hung on like this, and after a while Guan Zai said, "Yu Tu, your sister-in-law said, it's not like that."
Then he scolded, "Are you stupid?"
It was the first time in his life that he was scolded like this, but Yu Tu laughed instead. He looked up at the starry sky above his head, which was purer than anywhere else, and admitted sincerely, "You are right."
When I returned to Shanghai, there were still ten days before the Spring Festival. Yu Tu went to see Guan Zai first, and was mocked by him for a long time.
After a few days of work, while eating in the cafeteria one day, Da Meng suddenly said, "Who did you learn a new mantra from on a business trip?"
Yu Tu was taken aback, "What?"
"Didn't you find it yourself? Lao Ai said, 'Let's try harder'." Da Meng complained, "It's the same mantra as the head teacher of my senior year, and I get chills when I hear it."
After he finished speaking, he continued to cook, but Yu Tu stood there for a while with chopsticks, and when he lowered his head to pick up the vegetables, there was a smile in his eyes.
There is one more routine in the life of the fixed time on the way - writing letters.
Every late night when he came home, no matter how late, before going to bed, he would unfold the stationery and write a letter.
The content of the first letter is about the first cosmic speed. This question is very simple, but it also involves some principles and formulas that people usually don’t understand. Yu Tu tried his best to explain it clearly.
The second letter is about the comparison of China's aerospace technology level with that of foreign countries.
On the snow-white stationery, under the desk lamp, Yu Tu methodically wrote—
This is a huge question, and I may have to answer you in many letters. In this letter, let's talk about the history of the development of modern aerospace...
He wrote the letter before going to bed, and the next day, he took the mailbox that was put into the door of the unit. During the Spring Festival holiday, he sent a total of ten letters.
When putting the last letter of the year into the mailbox, Yu Tu thought, if there is no…
After I came back, I had to start talking about Mars immigration.