How should Qiu Jingwen tell his wife?
I can't exactly say, "I'm a spy and agent who's been lying low for years. Now my superiors have found me, woken me up, and I'm meeting them today after I promised them yesterday."
That superior knew everything about our family situation; he even followed our son to school. He was a ruthless spy who had killed countless people and carried out bombings before the liberation.
I have to meet him, and I also have to find a way to get rid of him, otherwise our family will never have peace again, and the children's lives will be threatened.
Can he tell his wife these things?
Perhaps because the silence had lasted a while, Jiang Yuping pressed for more information.
"Say something! What's wrong with you? Why did you take leave?"
Jiang Yuping urged him on the phone.
Qiu Jingwen said, word by word:
"Yu Ping, I'm sorry, I can't tell you, at least not now."
After saying that, he hung up the phone.
Qiu Jingwen had already planned that he would confess everything to his wife after he had killed Liu Han.
He wants to tell his wife about his spying secrets that he has kept hidden for so many years, ask for her forgiveness, and then turn himself in to the police, or choose to commit suicide.
He even seriously considered ways to commit suicide.
While inspecting work in the workshop, one might accidentally fall from the upper floor of the workshop.
Alternatively, one could choose to slide into a large pool of sulfuric acid, allowing the sulfuric acid to dissolve them completely, leaving not even bone fragments behind.
After all, he still had three children who hadn't grown up. If he left this world in the form of a work-related injury, the Hongqi Factory would definitely have to compensate his wife with a sum of money. Perhaps they could even help the children find work and recruit Qiushui into the factory ahead of time.
After hanging up the phone, Qiu Jingwen came out of the bedroom.
now,
The son, Qiushou, and the daughter, Qiuchan, were sitting at the dining table eating breakfast.
Perhaps because the children saw Qiu Jingwen's naked body last night, neither of the two children dared to look up at Qiu Jingwen.
Qiu Jingwen took the initiative to speak.
"Autumn harvest, autumn cicadas, are you all taking exams today?"
He asked even though he knew the answer.
Autumn Harvest looked up at his father.
He didn't answer the exam question, but instead looked at Qiu Jingwen with a strange expression.
"Dad, that's strange, why didn't you go to work today?"
"During the autumn harvest, Dad has an appointment with someone for something else today, so it's not time yet. After you've had breakfast, I'll take you and your sister to school first, and also ask the teacher about your performance at school this semester."
Qiu Jingwen said the last sentence because he felt that it was not right for him to simply send the children to school, and it would make the children suspicious.
The school is right next to the dormitory area.
Over the years, apart from taking the children to register when they entered first grade, I have never taken them to school. Besides, the children are older now and don't need to be taken at all.
Qiu Chan ate her fried dough sticks while looking at Qiu Jingwen.
"Dad, you're not going on a date with some woman today, are you? Hehehehe."
Qiu Chan was about to enter junior high school, and when she heard that her father had made an appointment with someone, she suddenly had a question.
Fearing her father's scolding, she deliberately made a mischievous face at Qiu Jingwen.
Although Qiu Jingwen did not yell at his daughter, he still began to lecture her.
"Qiu Chan, don't be so disrespectful. How dare you joke about your dad. Eat up, and I'll take you and your siblings to school after you're done."
The cicada stuck out its tongue and stopped talking, but the autumn harvest chimed in, asking:
"Dad, you haven't answered Sister Qiuchan's question yet."
Seeing her daughter calling her older sister by her name, Qiu Jingwen also used the autumn harvest as an excuse to reprimand her.
"Autumn harvest, you have no manners at all. Do you think it's okay for the cicadas to sing? Call me 'elder sister'!"
Wearing a tank top and slippers, Qiu Shui walked into the restaurant with a lazy expression, as if she hadn't fully woken up yet.
Upon seeing Qiu Jingwen sitting in the restaurant, I felt quite strange.
"Dad, don't you have to go to work today?"
Qiu Shui asked, her eyes wide open.
She felt that her father was suspicious.
Then she stretched out her pink little hand, patted her pretty lips, and yawned several times in a row.
Qiu Jingwen knew that choosing to stay home today might be a mistake.
The children's surprised expressions showed their surprise and confusion at him staying at home.
He did not answer Qiu Shui's question either, but instead looked at Qiu Shui.
"Qiushui, could you please drop the word 'old' from 'Dad' in the future? Am I that old?"
Qiu Shui playfully stuck out her tongue at her father.
"Hehe, compared to me and my younger siblings, aren't you old yet?"
As he spoke, he reached out, grabbed a fried dough stick, stuffed it into his mouth, and took a bite.
While eating the fried dough sticks, Qiu Shui also reached out and pinched a small piece of dried radish, putting it in her mouth and instantly making a crisp sound as she chewed.
Qiu Jingwen didn't say anything.
In the past, he would have definitely scolded his daughter for being unhygienic, or stopped her when Qiu Shui reached for the fried dough sticks, forcing her to wash her hands with soap before eating.
In the 1970s, many families were still struggling to make ends meet and had little awareness of hygiene and health.
However, Qiu Jingwen's family still pays great attention to hygiene, which is related to his wife being a doctor.
At this moment, Qiu Jingwen had no mind to scold his daughter for her bad habits of not washing her hands and not being hygienic.
Qiu Shui ate a fried dough stick and got up to go to the bathroom to brush her teeth.
Qiu Jingwen called out to her.
"Qiushui, stay home if you have nothing to do. Study math, physics, and chemistry more. Circle the parts you don't understand and ask your brother and sister later. The factory may have recruitment exams at the end of the year, and math, physics, and chemistry are required subjects. Don't go running around all day. Wear more clothes, but don't wear anything too revealing. You can't go out in a tank top."
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