Xingxing ran towards the town.

But a few hundred meters after leaving the military compound, he ran into Zhou Sese who was walking back with He Dahua, talking and laughing.

"Xingxing, why are you here?" He Dahua asked while cracking melon seeds.

“…”

The little guy was silent for a moment, then walked forward and handed the dot in Zhou Sese's hand to He Dahua, "Aunt He, please help take care of my sister first. I'll have a word with my aunt."

I watched Xingxing pulling Zhou Sese to the side.

He Dahua chuckled and said teasingly, "You still want to have a secret conversation with your mother?"

Diandian stretched her little neck, opened her little hands, and put them behind her ears, "Let me listen."

He Dahua laughed and picked up Diandian. "If you don't listen, Auntie He will weave a little rabbit for you using the dogtail grass on the roadside, okay?"

The little rabbit instantly drew Diandian's attention back, and the little guy squatted on the side of the road to help pull the foxtail grass.

Zhou Sese looked at the little guy with a serious expression and felt confused. "What's wrong, Xingxing?"

Xingxing clenched her two little hands into fists.

He raised his head high and looked at Zhou Sese's face. His deep eyes, which did not match his age, were filled with complexity and contradiction. "Auntie, you..."

Zhou Sese waited patiently for Xingxing to speak.

final.

The little guy just said, "Aren't you going to the Fortress of Beijing? You...why don't you go now?"

Zhou Sese laughed, squatted down, and put her hands on the little guy's shoulders. "I'm going to go with Uncle Fu. Uncle Fu hasn't been discharged from the hospital yet, so I'm waiting for him to be discharged."

Xingxing's mouth twitched anxiously. "Just buy a train ticket and you'll be there. Why don't you just go first?"

Zhou Sese frowned.

Without using her sixth sense, Zhou Sese knew that something was wrong with Xingxing. "You... want your aunt to leave now? Why?"

Xingxing bit her lips and refused to say a word.

Zhou Sese pinched Xingxing's little chin and asked Xingxing to look at herself. The mother and son looked at each other, and their eyes collided. One was frank and generous, and the other was entangled and struggling. "Auntie can leave early, but you have to give her a convincing reason. Why do you let her leave early?"

The stars remain silent.

The smile on Zhou Sese's face slowly faded. "Xingxing, we should have a basis for doing anything, let alone asking others to do things, so I need to know what you think. Even if you don't like me, you should tell me frankly."

Hearing this.

The little guy subconsciously shook his head quickly and explained, "I don't dislike you, I like you very much... Anyway, you'd better go to the Forbidden City tonight!"

Zhou Sese's fingers groped gently, "Xingxing, have you heard any rumors? Will there be bad consequences if I stay?"

Xingxing looked at her in surprise.

I didn't expect that she would rush forward after just one guess.

Zhou Sese saw the surprise on the child's face and had some thoughts in her mind, "What did you hear?"

The stars lowered their eyes.

he……

Very conflicted.

He felt that in his seven years of life, he had never been as conflicted as he was today.

He loves his country very much. Anyone who is not good to his country should be punished accordingly. So after hearing about Sun Jianye and Wen Nuan in class, Xingxing always believed that people like them should be shot.

But……

But when he heard what others said with his own ears, and heard that others suspected that Zhou Sese might be an enemy spy, he found that the belief he had held on to collapsed in that instant.

He didn't want anything to happen to Zhou Sese, anything at all.

But he is Chinese.

His tangled heart ached.

Zhou Sese: "Fan Xingxing."

Xingxing shrank her neck and said in a muffled voice, "Auntie, are you an enemy spy?"

Zhou Sese's head buzzed and almost exploded, "What?"

Xingxing's eyes were red. "I just had diarrhea in the military toilet, and I happened to hear someone in the toilet say that Sun Jianye said you were an accomplice. Instructor Lantian called them to the office and was discussing this matter. I'm afraid that after they have discussed it, they will arrest you. Can you promise me that you will not betray others again... Don't do this kind of thing again, and then hurry up and leave here, don't get caught by them, okay?"

Teacher Zhou once said, "Although our country has just begun to develop and hasn't yet reached such great heights, we have a 5,000-year-old heritage. We have a people who are the most fearless of hardship and fatigue in the world. We have a patriotic sentiment that has lasted for thousands of years and cannot be erased. Auntie, we should love her. If we don't love our country, who else can?"

Talking and talking.

The little guy has collapsed.

Big tears fell, "Auntie, she is really good. Let's give her a little time. She will become better, a thousand times and ten thousand times better than the foreign country you like."

Zhou Sese suppressed her emotions, raised her hand to wipe Xingxing's tears, raised her arms to hold the little guy in her arms, and gently stroked his back as he cried out of breath. "Don't cry, auntie can assure you that auntie has never done anything that is detrimental to the interests of the country, and auntie will never do it in the future. Auntie is very happy that you have a pure love for your country, and you must continue to persevere and carry forward it in the future."

Xingxing raised her head, her scarlet eyes looking like a wronged rabbit. "Really?"

Zhou Sese nodded vigorously.

Firm attitude.

Xingxing rubbed her eyes. "But they said that after Dad came back from the mission, you seemed like a different person. Actually... Actually, I have always felt that way..."

Zhou Sese laughed and held Xingxing's face in her hands. "I will explain this to you one day, but now is not the time. But don't worry, I love my country and my nation as sincerely as you do."

Xingxing nodded without hesitation, "I believe you, but Auntie, how are you going to prove your innocence? Or you should go to the Forbidden City."

All of a sudden.

Zhou Sese thought of the most important thing.

Proving her innocence is not something that can be resolved overnight, and she cannot be 100% sure that she can complete this task successfully.

but!

Sheng Xijiang's promotion is imminent.

If this matter is not resolved in time, it will definitely have an impact on him.

Although she always felt that Sheng Xijiang was not very enthusiastic about the promotion, he personally went to the political commissar's home to ask the political commissar about the promotion, so how could she not care?

Zhou Sese patted Xingxing's head and said, "Go find Aunt He and ask her to take you and your sister home. I have to go first."