On his daughter's tenth birthday, the night before he participated in the selection, after he signed the agreement and left. Yan Hua sat alone at the dining table, looking at the divorce agreement that Lu Yuanzhou had signed, and hesitated several times when he picked up the pen.
Decide.
Just when she was almost determined to sign her name, her daughter Lu Yan suddenly ran out of the room with crystal tears on her face and disheveled hair. She picked up the divorce agreement on the dining table and threw it into the air.
The open pages are tumbling in the air like this broken family.
At that moment, Yan Hua realized that this ten-year-old child understood everything. She could even act like a ten-year-old child in front of her father, who had not been masked for a long time. Yan Hua and her daughter hugged each other and burst into tears. She also
I completely gave up the idea of signing a divorce agreement.
"General Lu, do you think there is a problem with our information or..." The woman looked at Lu Yuanzhou's daze for a long time and finally asked.
Lu Yuanzhou was startled, came to his senses and said quickly:
"No, no, I made a mistake... Then, can I see my family before starting the mission?"
Chai Shizheng smiled and looked at his colleagues around him, then at Lu Yuanzhou:
"Of course. We estimate that your mission will take at least ten years. You should also say goodbye to your family before embarking on the greatest journey in human history. We have notified your wife and
Daughter, you will be reunited with them soon."
Lu Yuanzhou was like a guest visiting a friend's house for the first time. He sat at a loss in front of the elaborate and elegant pastoral style dining table. Several exquisite dishes were already placed on the table, most of which were his wife's specialties.
There was also half a bottle of red wine next to it, which was the bottle they opened when they had a drink at the wedding ceremony. He didn't expect that his wife still kept it for him and brought it with him. Watching his wife still busy in the kitchen, at this moment
He felt extremely satisfied.
He originally wanted to talk to his daughter about some family matters, but at this time, the already slim Lu Yan was sorting out her homework on the coffee table.
He didn't want to disturb his daughter, because he knew that nowadays, very few children of Lu Yan's age could receive regular cultural education in ordinary schools. Her classmates in the current school are all the elite among the elite, so they can continue their studies in ordinary schools.
He understands the pressure his daughter is under.
Yan Hua took off the last dish and took off her apron. She wore a chiffon floral dress and wavy hair, which fully highlighted her unique female elegance and intellectuality.
The wife put the dishes in her hands on the dining table and said to her daughter next to her:
"Come over for dinner, Yanyan."
Lu Yan put down the books that she had been distracted by, walked to her seat, sat down, picked up the bowl and chopsticks, and started eating without even looking at Lu Yuanzhou from the beginning to the end.
Lu Yuanzhou, on the other hand, was just the opposite. He watched his daughter's every move throughout the whole process, and kept a cautious smile infected with embarrassment on his face. He picked up the chopsticks, picked up some vegetables and put them in his daughter's bowl:
"Eat more, you are growing stronger now."
The daughter still didn't look at him, and after a while she said in a small and resentful tone:
"I know it myself."
Lu Yuanzhou did not blame his daughter at all. On the contrary, he felt very guilty. As a father, he had been absent for many years when his daughter was growing up. The damage caused to his daughter would be irreparable in a short time.
A trace of guilt flashed across Yan Hua's face. Lu Yuanzhou had proposed several times in the past few years that he wanted to meet his daughter, but she had always rejected him. She picked up the red wine and slowly poured it into the cup, then handed it to Lu Yuanzhou:
"You should eat too, I heard what the leaders of the base and Uncle Sun said. You are going to carry out a long-lasting mission this time, and the conditions are very difficult. Now that the conditions are still there, just eat more."
From the details of his wife's expression, he seemed to see the wife who once loved and cared about him deeply. He gingerly took the wine glass:
"Have you met Uncle Sun?"
Yan Hua nodded, with a simple and elegant smile on his face:
"Well, his troops are now stationed at the base for training. He takes good care of Yanyan and me, and often provides us with extra rations. He said that Yanyan should eat better when she is in poor health."
A smile appeared on Lu Yuanzhou's lips. Although he left the army to participate in the selection, his father's old buddy and his old leader had always taken care of his family like an elder, which moved him very much.
"When were you picked up?" Lu Yuanzhou asked.
Yan Hua felt a little strange when he heard this question. After thinking about it for a while, he seemed to remember something:
"Oh, we moved here three years ago. At that time, someone from the government told me that as a senior military dependent, I could enjoy special rations."
She looked at Lu Yan, who was still immersed in eating:
"At first, Yanyan and I didn't want to leave our original place. Later, they said that the living environment, security conditions and educational resources would be better here, so we moved here."
Lu Yuanzhou was shocked. He never expected that the family he had missed so much had been near his base all these years. However, he still forced himself to look around this exquisite house calmly:
"Well, it looks better here than before. It's also safe near the base."
Yan Hua picked up some vegetables and put them in his daughter's bowl:
"I don't really care about these, mainly because the educational resources here are better. The pressure and burden placed on children today are beyond our imagination before. Most children of this age have begun to enter professional skills training. Even people like Yan
Children like Yan who continue to study in ordinary schools are as taut as a straightened spring."
Lu Yuanzhou sighed:
"Hey! Now the whole human race is stretched out. There is nothing we can do."
Then he looked at his daughter who was immersed in eating and asked:
"Yanyan, if you are under a lot of pressure to study, you must find a way to relax yourself. Don't stay tense all the time. This will make it easier..."
Before Lu Yuanzhou could finish speaking, Lu Yan said in a fierce tone:
"I know it myself, I don't need you to teach me!"
Lu Yuanzhou was startled, and the expression of embarrassment and guilt flashed across his face, but it quickly returned to his polite smile. On the contrary, Yan Hua put the chopsticks on the bowl with some force and said sternly:
"You child, you are usually so sensible. What happened today..." His tone gradually became calmer in the second half of the words. In fact, she knew very well why the child behaved like this today.
Lu Yuanzhou quickly said:
"It's okay, it's okay. It's all dad's fault. He didn't stay with you when you were a child, and he didn't guide you when you grew up. Now..." Lu Yuanzhou's voice was startled and choked up. His daughter looked up with tears in her eyes.
Whirling, her clear eyes glared at Lu Yuanzhou, and her childish voice with a crying tone shouted hysterically:
"What's the use of saying all this? I finally came back once! I have to leave again soon! And I have to leave for a long time! Then why are you coming back? It's better not to come back, and I will pretend that I don't have you as my father! This way I will feel better.
Why do you have to remind me that there is a father I have been missing..."
After saying this, his daughter burst into tears, and Lu Yuanzhou could no longer control his emotions. So many years of regret, guilt, and debt turned into bursting tears that flooded his resolute face without restraint.
.
Yan Hua looked at the man in front of her who once made her willing to die, and then made her heartbroken. At this moment, she burst into tears and cried like a child. The ice band in her heart for many years finally had some reason to resolve. She wiped it away
With tears oozing out of the corners of his eyes, he poured red wine into his own glass.
She raised her glass and took a deep breath. The past events that had broken her heart for so many years finally began to dissolve in her consolidated heart. Her face was filled with tears, but she smiled:
"If...if you can come back safely, no matter how long it takes, my daughter and I are willing to wait for you."
When Lu Yuanzhou heard these words, he raised his head suddenly. He looked at his wife with wide eyes, full of hope and happiness that had been lost. No words could allow him to express his determination and cherishment of his family. He just held the hand tremblingly.
Wine glass, mouth repeating:
"Definitely...certainly...I will definitely come back..."