It's late at night!
Wang Jun had already gone back to the front yard to rest, and the lights in Wang Yueyue's room had been turned off. Only Li Chu was left sitting on the recliner in the yard, staring wide-eyed at the bright moon in the sky.
It took him a long time to come to his senses. He reached out and touched the little black dog that had been resting its head on his lap before standing up to go inside to wash up and go to bed.
"Ring ring ring"
Just as Li Chu stood up, he heard a telephone ringing in the living room.
"Sigh~" He sighed. "It must be an urgent mission for me to get a call so late." He quickly went inside.
Less than two minutes later, he came out dressed and ready. When he got to the front yard, Wang Jun was also coming out of the house, wearing a coat.
"Junzi, something's come up at the hospital and I need to go there."
"Okay, I knew there must be an emergency when I heard the phone ring. Go quickly, I'll be here for the next few days, just give me a call if anything happens."
"Okay, go in and rest. Take good care of your wife."
The dogs following Li Chu watched their master walk out of the yard and close the gate. After whimpering a few times, two of them lay down under the eaves inside the gate, while the rest went back to the backyard.
Wang Jun stood there watching the dogs clearly divide their tasks, smiled slightly, and turned to go into the house.
...
The next morning, Ding Qiunan got up early.
She wouldn't dare stay in bed at her parents' house, unlike at her own home where her husband gets up early to exercise, and by the time she gets up, breakfast is usually already bought.
If she dared to lie in bed waiting for breakfast here, she would probably be met with a tirade from Ding's mother.
After finishing breakfast and feeding the child, she took Ding's mother out for a walk.
As soon as I reached the gate of the family compound, I saw a woman in military uniform pushing a bicycle and walking in with a tired look on her face.
"Xiaoxia, did you just get off your night shift?"
"Sister Ding, what are you doing here?" The female soldier called Xiaoxia looked up when she heard her voice and saw the person standing opposite her, and asked in surprise.
"My parents are staying here. They're on vacation for a couple of days, so I brought the kids to stay with me. Did you have a mission last night?"
Xia is the head nurse of the special needs ward. Normally, although they also need to work night shifts, they just sleep in a different place. Someone like her, who looks so tired, must have been busy all night.
"Don't even mention it. There was an emergency last night, and your Director Li was called over late at night. I came back to rest this morning after handing over my shift, but he probably still has a lot to do."
"Then you should go back and rest. Look at your dark circles."
"Okay, I'm going back to catch up on some sleep. I'm so sleepy I can barely keep my eyes open. Auntie, you can go ahead, I'll go in first." Xiaoxia nodded to Aunt Ding and prepared to walk into the yard.
She had only taken two steps when she stopped again, turned around and looked at Ding Qiunan, who was still there, and said, "Sister Ding, does your Director Li also perform surgery?"
"Oh? Yes, traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have surgical procedures."
"No wonder, Director Li's skill last night really shocked all those surgeons."
Watching Xiaoxia push her bicycle into the yard, Aunt Ding finally spoke up, "You have a mission, aren't you sure you're okay not going back?"
"This is a business matter; I'm in logistics, it has nothing to do with me."
"Xiao Chu is over fifty years old. Is it okay for him to stay up all night all the time?"
"Don't worry, Mom. Do you think your son-in-law has been exercising for decades for nothing? He's as strong as an ox. He can stay up for two or three days without sleep without any problem."
"You still need to be careful, after all, you're not a young man anymore."
Ding Qiunan pursed her lips and didn't reply. A young man? Ha, how many young men can be healthier than your son-in-law?
"Oh oh~" The little stinky baby in my arms suddenly raised his finger and pointed ahead.
Ding's mother and Ding Qiunan looked ahead following his little hand and saw a stray dog lying on the side of the road, seemingly chewing on something.
"Stinky baby, that's not our dog."
Little Choubao turned his head to look at his grandmother, and suddenly uttered a single word.
"dog……"
Ding Qiunan and her mother stared wide-eyed at the child.
"Mom, he's only eight months old, and he can already talk?"
"Maybe it was unintentional. You're talking about a dog, let's see if he says anything more."
"Sweetie, say it with Grandma, dog~"
"Oh~"
"No, it's a dog!"
Ah~
After teaching him for half a day, the little stinky boy refused to say the word "dog" again, leaving Ding Qiunan exhausted.
"Well, it seems like I just blurted that out unconsciously."
She stopped worrying about it and continued her stroll along the roadside with Aunt Ding.
"How old were Wenxuan and Wenhui when they started talking?" Ding's mother suddenly asked as they were walking.
"Around ten months old, the two children started calling each other 'daddy' and 'mommy' one after the other."
"Wow, time flies! It feels like you just got married not long ago, and now you're already a grandmother."
Looking at her daughter's still youthful face, Ding's mother couldn't help but sigh.
"Mom, what do you think I would be like now if I hadn't gone to Peking Union Medical College for further studies?"
"Who can say for sure? It certainly won't be as comfortable as it is now." Aunt Ding shook her head, then added, "That's why I say you're lucky. If it weren't for the fact that Deputy Director Chen's daughter-in-law suddenly found out she was pregnant back then, you wouldn't have had the chance to go for further training."
Ding Qiunan frowned and thought for a while before saying, "Mom, you mean Sister Fang, right?"
"I think her name was Fang Fang, but I can't remember exactly. Although your father asked someone to arrange for you to go for further studies, the first choice was actually the daughter-in-law of Deputy Factory Director Chen."
"Qiu Nan, Da Cheng, do you still remember him?"
"Great Completion? Which Great Completion?" Ding Qiunan was a little confused by her mother's sudden change of topic.
"It's right next to our old courtyard, that little boy from Old Dong's family."
"Oh, you mean Dong Cheng? I remember, we were classmates. Didn't he take over Uncle Dong's job at the factory right after graduating from junior high school?"
"Yes, it's him. Back when you had just gone to study, his mother came to propose marriage. Your father almost agreed."
Ding Qiunan turned her head to look over in disbelief; this was truly the first time she had ever heard of such a thing.
"Don't look at me like that. Considering the circumstances back then, his family was quite well-off. They even prepared a wedding room for him. You were classmates, and you all know each other well. If you really married him, your life wouldn't be too bad. Of course, that's without Xiao Chu."
That's right. Compared to Li Chu, who would dare say he has better qualities? Apart from being a little average-looking, now that you look at him, no one would say he's average-looking anymore.
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