Chapter 49 When You Retire, I Will Call You Dad
On New Year's Eve, Lin Momo and Cheng Jinghao cleaned the house inside and out.
Lin Momo cut several window decorations out of red paper, and Cheng Jinghao wrote a couplet in a flamboyant manner.
[The spring scenery is bright and the mountains and rivers are covered with splendid beauty; China is soaring and the motherland is eternally young. Horizontal banner: "Magnificent mountains and rivers"
The couple pasted up the couplets and window decorations. They stood at the gate of the yard, looked at the couplets pasted on the gate, and smiled at each other.
"Let's make dumplings today." Lin Momo said with a smile. Their two families will make dumplings together later.
"Okay, let's make the one with sauerkraut and meat filling. You like it." Cheng Jinghao tapped her nose.
"There's also leeks and eggs, you like it." Lin Momo laughed.
"Let's go and eat dumplings." Cheng Jinghao hugged her and walked into the yard.
The couple divided the work together, you kneaded the dough and I chopped the stuffing, and the dumplings soon began to come together.
"Will you send some dumplings to Commander Chen later?" Lin Momo asked while eating dumplings.
"Why do you say that?" Cheng Jinghao looked at her.
"Does he have no family and only one guard around him?"
"Well, wait until it's ready. I'll go send some over. He's from the north and loves eating dumplings." Cheng Jinghao said.
"He, why......" Lin Momo looked at him, but was too embarrassed to ask.
"Why are you alone?" He looked at her.
"Um."
"His wife died in the war on the south bank. She was pregnant at that time, and he never looked for her again." Cheng Jinghao sighed.
"Then I'll go with you later and we'll keep him company." Lin Momo said after thinking for a while.
Cheng Jinghao looked at her. His Momo was the kindest girl.
"Will this be a good thing? Will it have any impact on you?" She looked at him. She was afraid that people would say that Cheng Jinghao was currying favor with the powerful.
"Yes, he and I have always been close, it doesn't matter." He raised his hand and pinched her face.
"......" She saw the flour on his hand, "You did put flour on my face."
"Uh." He saw the paleness on Lin Momo's face.
"Come here."
"Is it too late for me to admit my mistake now?" Cheng Jinghao looked at her sincerely.
Lin Momo waved her hand towards him, and he had no choice but to stretch his face over. She raised her hand and touched the tip of his nose with a little white.
"That's fair." She smiled brightly at him.
After the dumplings were ready, Lin Momo took another egg cake and some malted milk sent by Cheng's mother, and they went out.
Cheng Jinghao helped Lin Momo all the way to Commander Chen's house, fearing that she would slip.
The person who opened the door was Commander Chen's guard. "The Commander is in a very good mood. He hasn't eaten anything all day."
"I understand. You go and get busy." Cheng Jinghao said, preparing to take Lin Momo in.
"Wait a moment." She stopped the guard and said to Cheng Jinghao, "You go in first. I'll go cook a bowl of dumplings."
He thought for a moment and nodded, "Take my wife to the kitchen."
Lin Momo followed the guard to the kitchen, and Cheng Jinghao walked into the main room by himself.
The door of Commander Chen's room was not closed. He stood in front of the desk with a photo in his hand. Cheng Jinghao knew it was a photo of his wife.
"If your aunt knew that you haven't eaten for a day, she would be worried." Cheng Jinghao interrupted his thoughts.
"Why are you here?" Commander Chen looked at him.
"I came to see you." Cheng Jinghao walked into the room, took the photo from his hand, and put it back into the book.
"Has your father written to you? Is he in good health recently?" Commander Chen and Cheng's father were comrades-in-arms. Cheng's father retired from the army due to injury.
"Whether you eat or not, he must be in better health than you." Cheng Jinghao helped him sit down.
"You bastard." Commander Chen glared at him.
"My wife made dumplings for you. They are cooking now. You should eat some later." Cheng Jinghao said with a smile.
"Comrade Xiao Lin is here too?" Commander Chen quickly stood up and straightened his clothes.
"What Comrade Lin, her name is Momo, is she also your daughter-in-law?" Cheng Jinghao raised his hand to help him straighten his collar.
Commander Chen's hands were shaking a little. He looked at Cheng Jinghao. In front of outsiders over the years, Cheng Jinghao was just a young officer he valued, and no one knew their private relationship.
When Cheng Jinghao first joined the army, he had no guards. He would secretly fetch water for him, wash his clothes, and sweep the floor for him in the middle of the night.
The talkative boy would secretly come to him in the middle of the night to ask for rewards after becoming the monitor. After returning from a mission, he would say to him, "I'm back" when reporting back. '
"We agreed that when you retire, I will take care of you in your old age and you can call me dad." Cheng Jinghao saw the emotion in his eyes.
"Then why are you shouting now?" Commander Chen looked at him.
"If you keep yelling, people will think I'm taking advantage of you. If you keep yelling, you will be punished." Cheng Jinghao shook his head.
"You want to take advantage of me? I am a corps commander after all." Corps commander Chen said with a smile. Others can take advantage of me even if they want to.
"I rely on myself." Cheng Jinghao looked at Commander Chen firmly. Both he and Yuan thought so.
"Okay, I'll wait for the day when you call me dad." Commander Chen laughed, his bad mood healed by Cheng Jinghao's words.
"It's time to eat dumplings." Lin Momo shouted from the main room.
Commander Chen glanced at Cheng Jinghao.
"Wife, come in for a moment." He received the gaze of Commander Chen, this old fox.
Lin Momo entered the room and looked at the two people in the room. She had a rough idea of what they meant.
"Call him dad for me..." Before Cheng Jinghao could finish his words, Commander Chen did it.
"Why do you call me dad? Momo is my daughter-in-law, so she has to call me dad?"
"Dad." Lin Momo was smart and understood immediately without any hesitation.
"Hey, hey." The smile on Commander Chen's face became even wider. He touched his pocket, took out a stack of big unity notes from the box in the closet, counted out ten and stuffed them into Lin Momo's hand.
"My dad gave it to me as New Year's money."
Lin Momo looked at Cheng Jinghao helplessly with the money in her hand.
"Take it, the old man has money." He knew that it was time to take it, and Commander Chen felt better.
"Yes, Dad has money." Commander Chen said happily.
"Old man, you eat your dumplings. We'll go back first. I'll come again tomorrow." Tomorrow Cheng Jinghao will follow Sheng Li and Xu Gang to pay New Year's greetings to Commander Chen. This is their annual custom.
"Okay, go back and be more careful and help Momo."
On the way back, Lin Momo couldn't help but ask about what happened just now.
"Is it Yuan? "
"Yeah." Cheng Jinghao nodded, "But, that's what I think too."
Whether from the original memory or from the past few months of getting along, Cheng Jinghao has developed a deep affection for Commander Chen.
The night he sent Zhao Zhigang to the train station, in addition to Lin Momo, Commander Chen was also waiting for him. Only when he drove back did Commander Chen go home to rest.
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