"Why? Who in the Central Courtyard wants to build a house?" Ding Qiunan asked curiously.
"Who else could it be but Qin Huairu!"
Why do you think her family needs to build a house?
Li Chu then explained his guess, and the two walked and talked.
On summer evenings, there are many people sitting by the roadside to cool off or walking on the street.
Two police officers walked towards us, each leading a dog. Nowadays, in addition to the joint defense team members patrolling the city at night, the police also send out officers to patrol.
Li Chu and Ding Qiunan didn't pay any attention and continued chatting as they walked.
They had all walked past when the dog that the policeman was holding suddenly broke free of its leash, turned around, and ran to Li Chu, sniffing around his calves.
When the two police officers saw the dog run away, they were about to give chase when they noticed that the dog hadn't gone far and was right next to the legs of the person who had just passed by. They assumed the dog had discovered something and had even reached for its gun holster.
Just as he was about to question Li Chu, he saw the dog run over to Ding Qiunan's legs and sniff a few more times.
By this time, Li Chu had realized that the dog must have been given away by his family, and it probably recognized him and Ding Qiunan.
He crouched down and reached out to touch the dog's head. Goodness, the dog had already decided that this was its previous owner. It almost wagged its tail off and jumped up to jump into Li Chu's arms.
At this point, the two police officers also realized something was wrong; they clearly knew each other.
They glanced at each other, lowered their hands from their waists, and walked over.
"Li Chu, do you recognize this dog?" Having raised this dog for many years, Ding Qiunan knew that this was a sign that the dog was happy.
"Hehe, you should recognize this too." Li Chu looked up at his wife and said, "This should have been given out by our family, but I don't know when it was given out."
"Ah, the dog we gave away?" Ding Qiunan said, squatting down and reaching out to pat the dog's head.
The dog happily stuck out its tongue and licked her hand.
Two police officers who walked over also heard what the couple was saying. One of them was from the police dog team. He carefully looked Li Chu up and down by the streetlight and recognized him.
"Dr. Li, it's you! I didn't look closely and didn't recognize you."
Li Chu stood up with a smile and greeted the two police officers.
"I didn't expect it to recognize me."
"Dr. Li, your dogs are of good breed and very intelligent. They can learn many things after being taught only once."
Li Chu smiled without saying anything, touched the dog a couple more times, picked up the rope from the dog, and handed it to the policeman.
"You have a mission, so I won't take up any more of your time."
The dog knew its original owner was leaving, so it whimpered twice and tried to come closer.
Seeing this, Li Chu knew he couldn't keep teasing the dog, otherwise it would be troublesome if the police couldn't pull it back. He said goodbye to the two of them and left with his wife.
Sure enough, the dog started barking from behind and tried to run over, but this time the policeman tightened the leash and prevented it from breaking free.
After walking a hundred or two meters, Li Chu looked back and saw that the two policemen were still standing there with their dog.
"Sigh," he sighed and turned around. Over the years, he had given away countless dogs, and most of them probably didn't even remember him as their original owner.
I never expected to meet one today that it would remember so clearly and have such deep feelings for its original owner.
It was only about forty days old when it was sent away.
Ding Qiunan turned to look at her husband and said with a smile, "Aren't you feeling a great sense of accomplishment? Even our dog has a government job now."
"Pfft," she chuckled, her carefully crafted sentimental mood ruined by her words.
"I never expected this dog to be so smart. It's been at least two or three years since we gave it away, and it still remembers us."
Ding Qiunan suddenly leaned close to his ear and whispered, "Stop lamenting and go home. I need to use the restroom."
Alright, let's go home. These two incidents have ruined my mood. I immediately took her little hand and hurried home.
...
This is the first time I've been away from my child for such a long time since we had him.
After more than a month of enjoying time alone together, the two children finally returned on August 20th.
I've successfully received my admission notice, and I'll be reporting to the school on the 23rd to undergo nearly six months of military training at a military base in the suburbs of Beijing.
After roughly tidying up the things the children would take away in three days, Ding Qiunan sat on Wenhui's bed, looking somewhat forlorn.
"Mom, it's not like we're not coming back. We'll finish before the Lunar New Year."
"Sigh," Ding Qiunan sighed softly, "I didn't stay at home during the summer vacation, and now that I'm back, I have to go through six months of closed military training."
"What's wrong?" Li Chu walked in from outside and saw his wife sitting on the edge of the bed in a daze, with his daughter standing beside her.
"They're about to leave, it's been half a year, that's a bit too long, and they're not even letting their parents visit."
Li Chu looked at Ding Qiunan speechlessly: "Wife, since you don't want the child to leave and feel sad, could you please pull your mouth back a little, since it's practically stretched to your ears?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Wenhui and Wenxuan, who had come in with their father, looked at their mother in astonishment.
Sure enough, there wasn't a trace of reluctance on Mom's face; she was clearly overjoyed and couldn't hide it.
"Ah... Li Chu, I'll fight you to the death!" Ding Qiunan was furious and embarrassed after her thoughts were exposed. She put down what she was holding and pounced on her husband.
She clung to him and bit his ear.
The two children stared at their mother in disbelief, then simultaneously slapped their foreheads, inwardly lamenting: How could we have such a lovable, silly mother?
Wenhui's lips were so pouty they could hang an oil bottle on them. She had thought her mother was reluctant to part with them and was trying to comfort her, but she didn't expect that her mother didn't seem reluctant at all. She probably even thought they were leaving too late.
Li Chu was afraid of dropping his wife, so he quickly reached out to support her.
"Alright, alright, the children are all here."
Ding Qiunan released her mouth and tilted her head to look at the two children: "What's wrong with that? I'm holding my man."
Suddenly she realized something: "No, this isn't over between us yet. Who told you to expose my secrets?" Then she opened her mouth and bit her ear.
Left with no other choice, Li Chu could only help her out of her daughter's room, saying as they walked, "Okay, okay, I was wrong. I won't expose your secrets again."
"There will be no future! I'll bite you to death!"
Watching their parents leave, Wenhui and Wenxuan were left staring at each other in bewilderment.
"Sigh," the two children sighed at the same time, wondering when their mother would ever grow up.
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