The following year, on the eve of August 1st Army Day.
Mu Huaixi is trying on military uniform at home.
Now she is in the summer vacation of her junior year. She doesn’t have many practical courses in her senior year, and most of her time is spent on internships and job hunting.
But she had been booked by the Qilu Military Region Hospital early on and would take up her post after this summer vacation.
After the end of the Southern Xinjiang War, when the merits were rewarded, she was praised by the Jiangbei and Northeast Military Regions and won numerous honors. The military hospitals and medical systems on both sides were interested in recruiting her, and even the Qilu Military Region where Ying Mingcheng was now located also joined the competition.
In the end, Mu Huaixi agreed to the recruitment of the Qilu Military Region. The other party was very straightforward and directly gave her the position of deputy director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, waiting for her to take office.
But Mu Huaixi is trying on the military uniform now, not to prepare for taking office.
On August 1st, Army Day, she was invited to the capital and the Great Hall of the People to receive the title of "Combat Hero".
Mu Huaixi today is completely different from when she just left the mountains. She has grown taller and her skin color is not as pale as before, but a healthy peachy white.
She had also gained some weight, and the white belt around her slender waist made her look more curvy. Also, due to years of exercise, her thighs and forearms were strong and powerful, making her look even more dashing in her military uniform.
Mu Huaixi adjusted his military cap and was about to pin the military medal on his chest when the door behind him opened.
"Mom!! Please save my sister, she's dying!"
Mu Huaixi turned his head calmly and saw Xiao Huihui, blushing, hugging Xiao Heping, who was also blushing. The two of them were entangled and struggling to move forward, just like Xiao Huihui holding an uncooperative cat or a fish out of water.
"What did she do again?" Mu Huaixi took her over and skillfully pinched her tightly closed lips open. Seeing that her teeth were clenched, he turned his head and asked his son, "Eating caterpillars again?"
"Yes. No," Xiao Huihui panted, anxiously trying to take action, "Sister ate my longhorn beetle!"
After he finished speaking, he wiped his eyes sadly. His grandfather took him to catch the longicorn last night, and he hadn't had enough fun with it yet!
"You are such a bottomless pit," Mu Huaixi was speechless about his little girl. With a little skillful effort, he pried open her teeth and rescued the longicorn.
I don’t know if it’s because this kid grew up with her in the rainforest, so he wants to bite everything he sees, and you can’t defend yourself against him.
She used to like to poke and eat ants, and later she ate caterpillars from a plum tree. Her mouth was swollen for more than ten days after being stung. It was Mu Huaixi who made her a detoxifying soup and fed it carefully for half a month before she got better. I thought she had learned her lesson, but I didn't expect that the first time she came back, she killed the little gray beetle.
Little Huihui held the drooling, dying beetle in his arms, tears streaming down his face. But he quickly widened his eyes, pointed at the innocent beetle's back, and said to her in surprise, "Mom, my sister has grown another half tooth!"
"Really?" Mu Huaixi looked over and saw two rows of nine tooth marks on the longhorn beetle's back. The one on the far left was only a faint trace, but compared to the ones on the caterpillar's corpse before, there were indeed more.
"Is she trying to grind her teeth?" Little Huihui often listened to his grandmother talk about his childhood, but his sister was not interested in the milk sticks he had eaten.
Mu Huaixi wondered if the child had pica, or was there something missing in his body?
"Maybe my sister doesn't like milk sticks. Later on, Mom will make her some fruit leather or dried meat to try." Seeing her eldest son licking his lips, Mu Huaixi smiled and pinched his face, "Don't worry, there will definitely be a portion for you."
"Then I'll help," Xiao Huihui quickly straightened his chest. He always remembered what his father said. He was a little man and had to help.
Mu Huaixi naturally agreed. Little Heping, who had just been depressed because of losing the longhorn beetle, had found a new toy. She grabbed the medal on her mother's chest and screamed, then put it into her mouth.
"This is not for you to grind your teeth," Mu Huaixi hurriedly took it back and held the little girl on the other side, but how could the persistent little girl give up like this? She kept reaching out to her chest.
Little Gray quickly held his sister close to him and handed her his tangram. "Little Curly, let's play this."
"You've been a great help," Mu Huaixi said. It's not that he was stingy, but most medals were made of lead and gold. If Xiao Heping used it to grind his teeth, it would definitely be more poisonous than eating a longhorn beetle.
Little Huihui chuckled after receiving the praise, then looked at the medals on the table with envy, "Mom, you have so many medals, don't you have more than Dad?"
"Yes. Your father has more military medals than me, and I have more commemorative medals than him." Seeing that his son was interested, Mu Huaixi picked up the medals on the table one by one. His chest was immediately full of honors.
She is the deputy director of the military hospital, but she is also a field doctor, so she has more military ranks than other doctors, and she has complete epaulettes, collar flowers, and hat tassels.
Compared to the colonel in her family, her rank of major was not very impressive, but the golden-red First-Class Hero Model Medal in the center of her chest shone brightly, and together with the First-Class Medal of Merit and the Combat Medical Master Medal next to it, it shone brightly, enough to show her glory.
"I want so many medals, too," Little Huihui said, drooling over them. "Mom, when you come back from the capital, can you let me wear them and take pictures?"
"No."
"Why?" Little Huihui didn't expect to be rejected. The little curly-haired boy next to him also babbled, helping his brother to fight against his brother.
"Because," Mu Huaixi hugged the two tightly in his arms, "this time we are going to the capital together. You don't have to wait until we get back to wear it to take pictures. When you get to the capital, you can take my badge and my dad's badge and we can take a picture together, okay?"
"Okay, okay!" Little Gray kissed her excitedly, "Oh! I can see Daddy again!"
Mu Huaixi smiled, and without warning, another little one came over and gave her a wet kiss on the cheek.
She was about to laugh, but when she thought about how her little daughter had just eaten a longhorn beetle, her smile froze on her face.
This time it was she who was invited to the capital, but all the members of the Ying family, young and old, came. The grandparents had already booked the tickets to witness the glory of their grandchildren and granddaughters-in-law at the forefront, and the two aunts also came, one to take care of the two naughty kids, and the other because they also wanted to go to Tiananmen Square to watch the flag-raising ceremony.
"Your parents are also in Beijing, maybe we can meet them." When grandma said this, Mu Huaixi didn't react for a moment.
It turns out they were talking about her parents-in-law!
It was really because her parents-in-law were too busy. She had already given birth to two children before it was her turn to meet her parents-in-law.
To be honest, I'm a little nervous for some reason!
But her parents-in-law did not completely disappear. They brought back gifts during the New Year holidays. They also called her when Xiaohui and Xiaoping were born, and sent money and milk powder.
They make a lot of money and don't bother her much. To be honest, her in-laws are probably the best in-laws that are hard to find in the world.
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