"Wang Cheng, there is no vinegar at home. Go downstairs and buy a bottle of vinegar."
In the middle of the meal, Bai Xiufen brought out dumplings from the kitchen and asked Wang Cheng to buy a bottle of vinegar from the small supermarket downstairs.
"Mom... I'm eating vigorously..." Wang Cheng grabbed a pig knuckle and was happily chewing it, when he suddenly asked him to leave and go downstairs to buy something. Of course he was unwilling to do so.
“Dumplings without vinegar are not delicious!”
Bai Xiufen is not negotiable.
"Mom..." Wang Cheng wailed.
This is not an elevator building. It takes more than ten minutes to go down to the small supermarket at the entrance of the compound to buy something and then come back.
Young man Wang Cheng, who can't stand being hungry, is eating with open arms at the moment. How can he be willing to leave the table?
"Wang Cheng, I'll go with you!"
Qiao Li suddenly stood up and pulled Wang Cheng.
"Your mother asked you to buy a bottle of vinegar and you are still nagging you. You are really spoiled!"
Wang Cheng's eyes first turned to Li Zheng, because Li Zheng was present, and he was afraid that he would put on the label of being spoiled and be looked down upon by Instructor Li.
So he stood up, wiped his hands and said, "You have to leave one of these pig's hooves for me, at least one."
Bai Xiufen said: "I'll leave it all for you. I don't eat greasy food. Do you mean that Instructor Li ate it?"
Wang Cheng suddenly blushed, turned around with a smile, opened the door, and went downstairs with Qiao Li to buy some vinegar.
In fact, Li Zheng had already smelled an unusual smell.
There is absolutely no need for two people to go together to buy vinegar. Qiao Li took the initiative to go, saying that Xiufen had something to say to her.
Li Zheng usually doesn't like to talk, but he knows it better than anyone else.
"Auntie, do you have anything to say to me? If so, please tell me."
After Wang Cheng left, Li Zheng asked Bai Xiufen straight to the point.
Bai Xiufen was slightly startled at first, and then said gratefully: "Thank you, Instructor Li, for being candid. Alas, if my Wang Cheng was half as sensible and steady as you, I wouldn't push him to get married."
Li Zheng smiled and said, "Auntie, shouldn't I ask him to persuade him to get married quickly?"
Bai Xiufen shook her head: "No, I want you to persuade him to leave the SWAT team. I mean, you don't have to be a police officer. You can go to other leisure departments. I don't want to see him in the SWAT team.
Work."
This time it was Li Zheng's turn to be stunned.
"Aunt……"
He didn't know how to answer this question.
"Career choice is Wang Cheng's own private matter. I can't make the decision for him. Besides, I'm just a special instructor, not the leader of your municipal bureau."
"I know." Bai Xiufen said: "I have thought about this issue a long time ago. In fact, I did not say this casually, but after careful consideration. In the past few months since you have been here, Wang Cheng has always had a different topic every time he comes back for dinner.
I have never left you. My own son knows it well. He has admired his father since he was a child, so he chose to be a policeman. Now he admires you very much. Although you are about the same age, he thinks you are very powerful and capable, so he respects you very much.
You, as long as you speak, I believe he will consider it."
Li Zheng's thoughts suddenly became confused.
He remembered what Qiao Li had said before, that Bai Xiufen strongly agreed with inviting him back for dinner, saying it was for a purpose.
It seems that this is the purpose.
He could hear the old mother's meaning from Bai Xiufen's words.
To put it bluntly, I am worried about the dangers my son will encounter while working in the SWAT team.
The missions carried out by the SWAT team are all high-risk missions, and many of them involve vicious incidents, such as the previous kidnapping in the cloth market.
But as an outsider, it's really hard for me to comment on such private matters.
"Auntie, I really have no choice or ability..."
Bai Xiufen said: "Instructor Li, actually you have. As long as you don't praise him during training, or even say that he has no shooting talent and is not suitable to be a sniper, it would be more appropriate for him to leave the SWAT team. I believe he will accept it."
"
Seeing Li Zheng's silence, Bai Xiufen continued: "I know my demands are excessive, selfish, and very embarrassing for you, but..."
When he said this, tears suddenly welled up in the corners of his eyes.
"The child's father has passed away, and his grandfather has also passed away on the way to the hospital. At that time, I really didn't agree with him taking the police academy. However, the system took care of the relatives of martyrs, and the police academy almost guaranteed admission, so the child was eager to go.
, I couldn't stop it back then, but now I am worried about it every day and have regretted it. I am a woman, and I don't know what righteousness is. I only want the safety of my children. Being a policeman is a good thing for outsiders to watch, but only I know the pain...
"
"Even though City L is a big city, you think it's quite safe, but it's not far from the border and there are a lot of drug dealers there. The child's father followed clues and went to the border city to hunt down drug dealers. What happened to you?
He said that I no longer have a husband. If something happens to my child, how will I live..."
Li Zheng was very confused.
On the one hand, he really felt that Bai Xiufen's request was excessive.
Wang Cheng is actually very talented in shooting.
If you let yourself lie about this, it will violate your own standards of conduct.
On the other hand, others believe that everyone has the right to choose their favorite career. Just as you choose to be a soldier, it is also because you want to do it, not because others think you should do it.
What's more, with Wang Cheng's character, he is so easy to convince.
"Auntie, I think you should tell Wang Cheng directly about this, tell him what you think, and let him make his own choice. As a shooting instructor..."
When it came, he shook his head: "I'm sorry I can't do anything."
A look of disappointment appeared on Bai Xiufen's face. For a long time, the two sat facing each other without saying anything.
Li Zheng wanted to stand up and say goodbye more than once, to leave this embarrassing place.
It's just out of politeness, but you can't do this.
If you really want to leave, you should at least wait for Wang Cheng to come back and say goodbye before leaving, otherwise the latter will definitely feel something is wrong, and it will be bad to get to the bottom of it.
In the end, it was Bai Xiufen who broke the silence first.
"I'm sorry, Instructor Li, I was presumptuous just now. Look..."
She smiled bitterly and looked at the food in front of her.
"It makes me seem like I have some ulterior motive for cooking this meal...I'm so ashamed..."
"Auntie, it's normal for you to think this way. Many parents all over the world think this way, but they all do it differently. In the end, who doesn't want their children to be safe?"
Li Zheng comforted Bai Xiufen.
"Sometimes I wish I had my mother by my side, but unfortunately... my son wants to be raised but cannot be taken care of. This is the biggest regret in my life..."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sound of opening the door.
Bai Xiufen quickly wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and squeezed out a smile.
"Mom." Wang Cheng opened the door and called as he came in: "I bought some drinks by the way."
Qiao Li followed behind and looked meaningfully at Li Zheng. Her eyes looked at Li Zheng and then at Bai Xiufen, as if she had already anticipated what would happen.
The second half of that meal was actually quite awkward.
After Bai Xiufen made the request, the atmosphere changed a bit.
Li Zheng felt a little on pins and needles, but he still stayed up until the end of dinner, and then stood up to leave.
Wang Cheng sent Li Zheng downstairs. When he got downstairs, he wanted to drive him off, but Li Zheng said he could just take the car back and there was no need to send him off.
Before leaving, Li Zheng had already walked out of the gate of the compound. When he turned around, he saw Wang Cheng still standing at the gate.
So I thought about it and went back, and asked him when I got there: "Do you really like being a sniper?"
Wang Cheng was surprised why Li Zheng asked him this, but he still nodded subconsciously: "Yes, I like it very much."
Li Zheng was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "That's good."
Wang Cheng felt strange and asked: "Instructor, why did you suddenly ask this?"
Li Zheng said: "No, I just think your talent is pretty good. I'm worried that you came to the training team with a playful mentality. If you don't like this business, you can work in other departments."
Wang Cheng laughed after hearing this and said: "Instructor, are you kidding? I finally transferred to the SWAT team from another department. You don't know how many times I shamelessly ran to the director's office in order to join the SWAT team. If it weren't for my dad
The reason is that the director is probably too lazy to talk to me..."
Li Zheng suddenly felt a little relieved and reached out to pat him on the shoulder: "That's good, work hard and be there on time next week. I will teach you some unique skills..."