A stunning beauty arrived on the island; she invented everything from childcare to babysitting.

After finishing his meal, Song Wenyuan contentedly led his wife and daughter to the port.

Although the model ship wasn't his, but rather a pretext he had used to trick his wife into coming to see him, it didn't stop him from going to borrow it again.

It was worth it for him to give the old man at the scrap yard two yuan, asking him to have his grandson run an errand to tell him when his wife went there.

Whenever he wanted to see his wife, he couldn't help but curse the rule that outsiders couldn't just enter the military base; otherwise, he wouldn't have had to go to such lengths to find a reason to lure her out.

However, if he didn't live in the military base, he wouldn't feel comfortable leaving his wife to raise their daughter alone.

Forget it, that’s it!

One time counts.

She came to the port with me today and we made a promise to take her daughter on a boat trip when it gets hot. How long until next time?

If all else fails, when we're working on the circuit board later, we can try to hide one or two important components. Then he can write a letter to us, and we'll have another chance to meet.

However, he did seem a bit anxious today at the state-run restaurant.

Thinking of what Xue Man had told him a few days ago, and the information he had gathered from others about how Qiao Shanshan had been dealt with, he felt extremely guilty about the many undeserved misfortunes his wife had suffered because of him.

He knew his commander's character; if there was real evidence, he would never protect Qiao Shanshan.

Since this is the way things are being handled now, it means that no useful evidence can be found, and the matter has to be put on hold.

So he didn't contact the other party, because doing so would only make things difficult for them and wouldn't have any real effect. It would be better to just pretend he didn't know, and the commander would feel guilty and take better care of his wife and daughter.

To avoid suspicion, Song Wenyuan still did not let his wife and daughter return to his residence with him. Instead, he went upstairs himself and moved his belongings to the stone table downstairs.

Although there was a man, a woman, and a child here, the table was piled with electrical parts, and anyone who saw it would only think that they were busy with important business.

Who would have thought that a date wouldn't involve a walk in the park or a movie, but rather doing crafts together?

Although Anning did not bring her newly revised design drawings with her this time, she added her changes to her latest letter to Song Wenyuan. Now that she has the materials and tools, she can just make it directly.

Before long, the two men had taken apart the old radios they had just collected. They took out the useful parts and left the useless parts aside, thinking they might be able to use them again next time.

While working on the circuit with his wife, Song Wenyuan did not neglect his daughter.

Besides the large ship model, he also found pens, notebooks, and erasers for his daughter so she could draw whenever she was bored.

The two of them did this for several hours.

It wasn't until Anning looked up and felt a soreness that she realized the sky wasn't as bright as it was at noon.

The little girl had already fallen asleep lying down beside him, her notebook and pen carelessly tossed aside.

An Ning woke her up, but Song Wenyuan gestured for her to be quiet.

He carefully pulled the notebook, which had been partially crushed by the child, from under her arm and looked through the drawings she had just made.

The first page features a model ship he borrowed. From the second page onwards, the backgrounds change, but what remains the same is that each page contains three people: two adults and one child.

Although the child cannot yet control the pressure of the pen very well, she has grasped the main features of each object, and even if the shapes are somewhat abstract, you can still recognize what she has drawn.

“She is very talented in painting,” Song Wenyuan said.

This wasn't the first time Anning had seen the child draw; she merely glanced at it casually before looking away and patting the child's head.

“She is very smart. Not only in drawing, but she also learns to read very quickly. I had her go to school with the neighbor’s child before, and among the older children, she was the first to memorize that poem.”

"She will definitely be just as outstanding as her mother when she grows up."

Song Wenyuan had a pair of peach blossom eyes, and when he looked at people with a gentle expression, he always gave people a very affectionate feeling.

Unlike the others who were modest, An Ning affirmed Chen Hai's words, saying, "That's for sure!"

After she finished speaking, the two fell into silence again.

Seeing the atmosphere becoming increasingly awkward, Song Wenyuan stood up and said, "It's getting late. I'll put the things back first, and I'll take you home later!"

It takes about two hours to cycle from the county town to the military base. Although it's still light now, it gets dark early in winter, so it will probably be completely dark in less than an hour.

"No, I..."

An Ning was about to refuse us, but this time Song Wenyuan was unusually firm.

“I’ll take you to town and then come right back. No one else will see us. The island isn’t safe. There was a war recently. I’ll be worried about you going back like this.”

Seeing his expression, An Ning's heart softened, and she agreed: "Okay."

The child was probably really tired; he had come out with Anning very early in the morning and hadn't rested at noon. After falling asleep, he didn't react when Anning put him in the child seat on the bicycle.

Anning was glad she had created such a spot for the child; otherwise, it would have been difficult to take her back just like that, with her asleep like that.

Even if you wake them up, it's still not safe; they could fall off at any time while asleep.

But now it's different. You can put the child in the car seat and then tie a rope around her waist, and you don't have to worry about her falling off.

To facilitate the movement of military vehicles, there is a main road from the county town to the military base, which is generally not bumpy and will not wake up children.

To avoid suspicion, when they were almost in town, Song Wenyuan deliberately lagged behind his wife. They entered the town one after the other, and he took a shortcut to watch his wife and daughter enter the military base before getting up to return to the city.

An Ning breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Chen Hai was keeping his distance.

If the other party insists on taking her to the entrance of the military base, she will have no choice but to refuse.

That's just how things are these days.

Even if the matter isn't true, any slight disturbance could be used to launch a massive attack, especially since there is indeed something fishy going on between her and Chen Hai.

I just hope Song Wenyuan can come back soon!

Such days won't last much longer.

When Anning returned with Xiaoni'er, Zhao Xuemei next door had already finished dinner.

Hearing Anning return, she ran over from next door with a happy expression: "Anning, you're finally back! You missed all the great news!"

"What's wrong?"

As Anning put the steamed buns she had brought back into the pot to steam, she asked.

Zhao Xuemei's smile had lasted all day. She had mentioned this matter more than once today, yet she still spoke excitedly: "The location for the factory has been decided, and now the higher-ups are looking for someone to make the design drawings. If all goes well, construction should begin after the New Year."