Eating melons

That night, the two families cooked a table of dishes at the old house using the ingredients brought back from Hainan. Although the food was not as fresh as what they ate locally, it had its own unique flavor.

At the dinner table, everyone recalled every little detail of their time on the island and laughed constantly.

The people who were happiest about Wei Wei and Xiao Xuemu celebrating the New Year on the island were Cheng Yan and Xiao Song. They were even happier than if Wei Wei and Xiao Xuemu had brought little Tuanzi back to celebrate the New Year.

After all, Xiao Yang is their son and has been away from home for many years. They also hope that their son's home can be lively and that more family members can be with him during the New Year.

After dinner, the little girl suddenly asked, "When are we going to go to the island to play with our brothers and sisters again?"

Xiao Yuanzi nodded and said, "Yes, yes, we promised our brothers and sisters that we would go back."

Wei Wei patted his head and said, "Wait for a chance. For now, enjoy your life in Beijing. Don't think too much. Cherish the present."

After dinner, the two little ones fell asleep due to exhaustion, and the adults sat in the living room, looking through the photos taken in Hainan.

The sunshine, beaches, delicious food and smiles are all captured on pieces of photo paper.

Wei Wei specially took a lot of individual photos of Xiao Yang's family and various group photos of their family. These were specially taken for Xiao Song and Cheng Yan.

Wei Wei is not a heartless person. She has seen and remembered all the kindness that Cheng Yan and Xiao Song have shown her over the years.

Cheng Yan and Xiao Song must have missed their children very much since they had been away from home for many years, so Wei Wei took a lot of photos of them.

They took a separate roll of film and gave it directly to Cheng Yan for safekeeping. The photo has been developed, and a copy of the photo of them and Xiao Yang's family was also developed for Cheng Yan.

When I saw the person in front of me, the photos and the film, I felt warm in my heart. I was right about him.

After dinner, the two little ones fell asleep from exhaustion, and several adults sat in the living room, looking through photos taken in Hainan.

The sunshine, beaches, delicious food and smiles are all captured on pieces of photo paper.

"Time flies so fast. It feels like I've just adapted to the climate there and I'm back."

Jiang Qi said somewhat melancholy that she quite liked Hainan and felt that it was very comfortable.

Li Zhibin put his arm around her shoulders and said, "It's okay, we can go again later."

Jiang Qi shook his head. "Probably not going anytime soon. Our goal is to travel all over our country. There are still many places waiting for us to visit."

Although she likes Hainan very much, she likes exploring the new world more.

Hearing Jiang Qi's words, Li Zhibin gritted his teeth. He had to say that he was really envious and almost jealous.

He also wanted to go out and play, and he wanted to go out and play with his wife and children for a day.

But he still had to go to work, so why did he go to the company in the first place? Li Zhibin had the idea of ​​starting his own company again.

In fact, his company has always been there, and he has controlling stakes in it, but he has handed it over to professionals to manage.

At the beginning, Jiang Qi ran to the unit and he also took the exam because they didn't want to be separated.

Later I felt that the job was pretty good and easy to handle, so I never thought about leaving.

Now Li Zhibin has left again. After all, looking at Wei Wei and Jiang Qi, they really are not joking and are seriously planning it.

He also knew that Wei Wei and Jiang Qi's dream was to eat, drink, and have fun all over the world.

And that bastard Xiao Xuemu will definitely follow Wei Wei. There is no doubt about it. He will stick to Wei Wei like he would stick to a bone.

He didn't want to be left alone at home, so he had to find a way to solve this problem.

Anyway, he has satisfied his desire to be an official and doesn't feel much about it anymore.

This time when he went out, he also experienced the joy of eating, drinking and having fun that Wei Wei and Jiang Qi talked about. What's more, he became a little addicted.

Compared to this, this job is really dispensable, and is even a burden, restricting my hands and feet in doing anything.

Anyway, he doesn't need this salary. His monthly salary here is more than what he earns in a day from business, so he doesn't need this money at all.

This job only looks respectable, and Jiang Qi doesn't seem to need this respectability, nor does he himself need it, so there is no need for him to suffer here.

Li Zhibin is a man of action, so he discussed it with Jiang Qi.

Jiang Qi doesn't care about this, as long as Li Zhibin likes it.

She didn't have the same idea of ​​a "iron rice bowl" as people do today. Their family conditions didn't require them to consider these things.

Li Zhibin's current job seems glamorous, but there are a lot of twists and turns in it. If Li Zhibin doesn't like it, there is no need for him to suffer the grievance.

Seeing that Jiang Qi had no objection, Li Zhibin immediately quit his job.

Wu Lichun only found out about this after Li Zhibin quit his job. She was so angry that she didn't know what to say.

But seeing that Jiang Qi didn't say anything, Wu Lichun didn't say anything either, but just scolded Li Zhibin in private.

He gave up such a bright future and went into business. His family was not short of money. He was such a fool.

Li Zhibin didn't care anymore and went back to his company to be his boss.

After staying back for a few days, Li Zhibin felt that no matter where he was or what job he did, as long as it was work, it was not easy to do and there was a lot to do.

Not to mention that Li Zhibin's foresight is still good. Because of his status and connections, he knows a lot more than others, so the company is getting busier and bigger, and the things are getting bigger and bigger.

Seeing that he was more tired than before, he immediately asked Jiang Qi for help. Following Jiang Qi's advice, he found a group of managers. He was only responsible for providing ideas and managing the overall situation, which made things much easier.

When Jiang Qi has time off, he also has time to go out and play. Even on weekends and Sundays, the two of them have time to go out and play for two days by car.

After a few months of this, Li Zhibin felt that this decision was really great.

Wei Wei was right. This is how people should live. What a miserable life we ​​lived before.

Li Zhibin and Jiang Qi have already laid down, only Wei Wei and Xiao Xuemu are still working as model workers and struggling.

Do Wei Wei and Xiao Xuemu like being model workers? Do they like rolling?

No, they were just forced to stop.

Seeing Jiang Qi and Li Zhibin so carefree, Xiao Xuemu and Wei Wei glanced at the work in their hands and sighed.

It's all my own fault. There's no way to extricate myself from this. There's nothing I can do. The overall situation comes first.

Moreover, seeing my country getting better and stronger step by step, and immediately having my own contribution, I feel a great sense of accomplishment.

After returning from Hainan, Wei Wei and Xiao Xuemu quickly plunged into their busy and meaningful work again, hardly stopping.

Wei Wei was fine, she had a normal vacation, but Xiao Xuemu didn't, because he still wanted to go out with Wei Wei during the summer vacation.

He didn't expect to go out and play with Wei Wei every weekend like Li Zhibin and Jiang Qi, and even after get off work, but they couldn't miss the winter and summer vacations.

But if he wants to take a vacation, he has to work twice as hard, because by handing in the golden finger, he, Li Shiyuan, Xiao Song and Mu Qing, especially Xiao Xuemu and Li Shiyuan, have become one of the soul figures of the national key scientific research project.

Because Xiao Xuemu was unhappy about it and Li Shiyuan also resisted, his workplace remained in Beijing and he didn't need to run around.

Otherwise, they would have to change frequently like Xiao Bai and Mu Qing, sometimes in a laboratory with a very high level of confidentiality, and sometimes in a remote test base.

However, although the two were a bit persistent in their research, the team they led overcame one difficulty after another in the field of materials science.

It is mainly Xiao Xuemu and Li Shiyuan, especially Li Shiyuan, who know which aspect will be more important and more likely to be strangled in the future.

So the two of them focused on this aspect, which resulted in many new alloys, composite materials and semiconductor basic materials that were originally supposed to appear in the 2010s or even later entering the application field a dozen years earlier or even earlier.

The emergence of these materials has laid a solid foundation for subsequent industrial upgrading.

Although Xiao Xuemu is busy, he also takes care of his family. Seeing that Li Shiyuan was hiding so much from the pressure to get married that he didn't even dare to leave the laboratory, Wei Wei was afraid that this man would suffocate himself and drive him crazy, so she pulled him out.

Since then, the six-member group has become a seven-member group every winter and summer vacation.

However, because of this, in the eyes of Xiao Song, Cheng Yan, Xiao Bai, Mu Qing, Wu Lichun and Li Jing, the relationship between Wei Wei, Xiao Xuemu and Li Shiyuan became even more confusing.

Wu Lichun had been so irritated by Li Shiyuan that she no longer wanted to care about him. Seeing that Xiaotuanzi, Xiaoyuanzi and Li Shiyuan had a very good relationship, she gave up torturing Li Shiyuan and stopped forcing him to go on blind dates.

Anyway, with these two children around and the contributions he has made, neither the country nor Xiaoyuanzi and Xiaotuanzi will leave him to die of old age. There will be someone to take care of him when he is old.

Summer 1990, Kashgar, Xinjiang.

"Dad, Mom! Look, snowy mountains!"

The seven-year-old little Tuanzi has grown a lot taller. His personality is still lively, but he has become more calm.

He leaned against the window of the jeep and pointed at the towering, snow-capped Kunlun Mountains in the distance and shouted excitedly.

For the snow-capped mountains in summer, not only is Xiaotuanzi rare, but Wei Wei is also quite rare.

Xiao Yuanzi in the car behind was also very excited and shared it excitedly with Jiang Qi and Li Zhibin.

Xiao Xuemu's eldest cousin Xiao Bing is already a deputy division-level cadre stationed here. He drove over to pick them up personally.

A bright smile graced his dark, resolute face. "How about it, Xuemu, Weiwei? The scenery in our northwest is quite different from that in Hainan, right?"

Wei Wei looked out the car window at the vast Gobi Desert and the snow-capped mountains in the distance.

There are oases dotted nearby, and you can feel the grandeur and magnificence that is completely different from the coastal areas, which makes you admire it sincerely.

“It’s so spectacular, a kind of beauty that shocks the soul.”

It was her first time here and the first time she saw such a stunning view. It turned out that what she saw with her own eyes was different from what she saw through the camera.

No matter how advanced or high-definition the lens is, it cannot compare to the shock of seeing it with your own eyes.

The accommodation that Xiao Bing arranged for them was right in the military compound.

In the evening, Xiao Bing's wife Pei Rou prepared a feast of local delicacies, including hand-pulled lamb, baked buns, and big plate chicken...

The children, especially the little dumplings, ate until their mouths were drooling and they exclaimed how delicious it was.

After dinner, several people sat in the yard and chatted. Xiao Bing handed Xiao Xuemu a cigarette, and Xiao Xuemu waved his hand.

"Quit it and take care of your health."

Xiao Bing raised an eyebrow and looked at Li Zhibin and Li Shiyuan, "You two have quit smoking too?"

Li Zhibin nodded, but Li Shiyuan was unhappy, "When have I ever smoked?"

When I saw the four of them smoking in the past, Li Shiyuan would often curse and beat people.

But he couldn't beat Xiao Yang and Xiao Bing, but compared to Li Zhibin and Xiao Xuemu, who were younger than him, Li Shiyuan was particularly strict.

The two men came from well-off families and were fearless. Li Shiyuan was afraid that they would become addicted to smoking, which was not a good thing, and he was also afraid that they would develop bad habits.

Therefore, Li Shiyuan is very strict in this kind of education. If a child makes a mistake in this kind of thing, Li Shiyuan will never cover it up and will report it more harshly than anyone else.

Under the strict control of Li Shiyuan, Xiao Xuemu and Li Zhibin have never had a smoking habit. They might smoke a couple of cigarettes due to the occasion, but they would never smoke unless it was necessary.

Not only do they not smoke, they also don't drink. The only difference is that people nowadays are educated differently from later generations, and their parents let them drink from a young age.

Not to mention that they grew up in the military, and their families made them drink even more.

Therefore, Xiao Xuemu and Li Zhibin can still drink a decent amount of alcohol, but they are not alcoholics and do not have an alcohol addiction. They also have no bad habits and have never been involved in pornography, gambling, or drugs.

Seeing this, Xiao Bing didn't force himself to light it. He took a deep breath. In an environment like this, there are few people who don't have a smoking or drinking addiction. Alcohol can sometimes be a life-saving thing and a luxury.

But now the environment is much better and life is much easier.

Xiao Bing looked at the brilliant starry sky and said with emotion, "Over the years, there have been huge changes. You may not know that the speed at which our frontier troops upgrade their equipment is so fast that it's a bit difficult for people to adapt.

There are many communication equipment and individual soldier systems that I never dared to think about before.

Moreover, many things are updated at an alarming rate. The previous batch of weapons and systems has only been used for a short time, and the next batch of new ones have to be learned."

These things were not a secret, and Xiao Bing did not hide them. He also knew what Xiao Xuemu and Li Shiyuan did, and they knew some things better than he did.

Xiao Xuemu and Wei Wei smiled at each other without saying anything. Li Shiyuan smiled and said without further explanation.

"The country is developing, brother. You've worked hard guarding the border. Friction has never stopped along the border over the years. With good equipment, we feel more at ease."

On the other side, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi chatted with Pei Rou about family matters and listened to her talk about the improvements in life in the border areas over the years.

From infrastructure to daily necessities, a vigorous vitality can be felt in every aspect.

After hearing this, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi felt warm in their hearts and had a sense of pride.

Jiang Qi knew that Wei Wei must have contributed to this, and there must be all kinds of good things in Wei Wei’s system mall.

Sure enough, such a powerful thing is not as good as being owned by the state as it is by private individuals.