After Jiang Hao left home, Lin Caiyin cried for a long time. Xi Bao asked her mother why her grandma was crying so sadly. Qiao Xinwei wanted to cry too, but she endured it in front of her child.
"Xi Bao went over and told grandma not to cry."
Xi Bao ran over, took Lin Caiyin's hand, and said, "Grandma, grandma, please stop crying. Can I sing you a song?"
"good."
Xi Bao started singing, dancing and singing, "Our motherland is a garden. The flowers in the garden are so bright. The warm sunshine shines on us, and everyone has a smile on their face..."
Later, the old couple still picked up the child. Firstly, the child was on winter vacation and she had to continue to work. Secondly, she really needed a separate space to vent her suppressed emotions in the past few days.
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Regarding whether to go or not, she only asked Jiang Hao one question, "Does it have to be you?"
Jiang Hao's answer was, "It's not that I have to do it. There is no one in the army, but rather than letting me live with this sense of guilt, it's better to let me die."
She thought that she would never forget Jiang Hao's expression and demeanor when he said, "It's better to let me die." She knew that if she forced her to stay, he might reluctantly agree not to go, but from now on he would only
Living like a zombie is not the person she loves, let alone the father Xi Bao needs.
So after that, she didn't say a word about the army.
It was getting late, and Qiao Xinwei looked at her phone drowsily. Another day was about to pass, and she didn't know what Jiang Hao was doing now or whether he was still in the capital.
She got up and walked to the kitchen. She opened the refrigerator to find something to eat. When she opened the refrigerator, she was shocked. There were several rows of raw dumplings in the refrigerator, about twenty or so. They were wrapped very delicately and stood upright.
Standing, she could see that there were plenty of fillings inside, including cabbage and meat fillings, and leek and meat fillings. She opened the freezer again, and there were two large packages of frozen dumplings and hundreds of dumplings, enough for her to eat for a while.
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It turned out that he was busy making these in the kitchen in the middle of last night, and he didn't sleep all night.
At that moment, Qiao Xinwei burst into tears and cried out. She thought she was strong enough. She thought that these years of experience had given her a strong enough heart. But when she met Jiang Hao, her defenses were still at full strength.
collapsed.
——"Don't work too hard. There is nothing you need to bear at home. You just want to kill time. Do you hear me?"
——"You know where my bank card is. Alas, that supplementary card is in vain. You don't even use it. Keep it all together."
Jiang Hao's words kept echoing in his ears. He also knew that there was a bad chance of leaving, so he told her these things as if he was explaining the funeral arrangements. It turns out that the most painful and hurtful things in the world are not betrayal and deception, but
Helpless separation.
Regarding the identity of a military wife, she went from being confused at the beginning, to rejection, and even disgust, to her current acceptance and understanding. Along the way, she finally realized that the honor of a soldier is given by the country, and the honor of a soldier is given by the country.
Life also belongs to the country.
Everything is fate, nothing is up to anyone, and the only thing she can do now is to take good care of herself, raise her son well, be filial to her parents, and wait for Jiang Hao to return in triumph, regardless of whether he comes back human or gray.
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Early in the morning, Qiao Xinwei came to the company on time. As soon as she walked into the office hall of the planning department, she heard Hong Shi say in a strange way: "Hey, the hot mom in our group finally showed up. She is so proud. She treats the company as her own."
I can come here if I want to, but no one can find me if I don’t."
This is Hong Shi. With the support of his uncle who is the vice president, he has kept a low profile for a few days, and now he takes the opportunity to become arrogant again.
Qiao Xinwei didn't have the mind to pay attention to the little squabbles in the office, so she had a resigned attitude towards Hong Shi, but to her boss, she thought she still had to give an explanation.
So, she went to Li Qianwei's office.
"Come in."
She opened the door and went in, "Team Leader Li."
Li Qianwei raised her head and glanced at her, her expression definitely not good, "You still know how to come to work? Do you think that discovering Cao Zekai's conspiracy in the hotel in time is a great achievement, so you ignore the company's basic system?"
"No, I have something to do at home these days."
"Whoever has nothing to do at home doesn't disappear like you without saying a word."
"sorry."
Li Qianwei sighed and said: "Forget it, Minister Zhu has already greeted me. Qiao Xinwei, can you tell me in advance next time?! I am your direct superior."
"Okay, I'm really sorry."
"Give me a supplementary leave request and go out to do some work." Li Qianwei threw out a stack of folders and said, "Give it to me before you get off work."
"Okay." Qiao Xinwei didn't excuse herself. She just let work numb her. At that time, she didn't have any extra thoughts to wonder how Zhu Zirui knew what happened to her family. She didn't ask Zhu Zirui
Rui mentioned it.
As soon as she got busy, time seemed to fly faster. When she was free, she did not forget to refresh the page to read the news, but the news released by the government could not see anything about Jiang Hao's whereabouts. Jiang Hao said that many
News is released after being filtered, and what should be published and what should not be published must be reviewed, so what the outside world knows is actually very rare.
Ruan Bin sent a WeChat message - "I saw the news and Ah Hao turned off his phone. I think I should have guessed what happened. I have always wanted to call you to ask about the situation, but I was afraid of affecting you. How are you doing?"
Qiao Xinwei typed a string of words, typed and deleted, deleted and typed, typed and deleted again, and finally she only sent two words - "Very good."
Ruan Bin was in a meeting, but the content of the meeting was boring and he didn't listen attentively. When he saw her reply, he could read her helplessness and sadness from these two words, "Okay." He replied.
Character.
Ruan Bin swiped his phone and looked at the news. There was no substantial progress regarding the sneak attack. Some politicians made such-and-such remarks on the matter.
As the New Year approaches, public attention slowly turns to the traditional and festive Spring Festival. However, this year is destined to be impossible for the Jiang family to have a good time.
On the last day of work, during lunch break, Li Qianwei called Qiao Xinwei to the stairwell. In the stairwell of a high-end office building, except for the cleaning workers who clean it every day, no one comes. So Qiao Xinwei guessed that Li Qianwei must have wanted to say
Things about Zhu Zirui.
"Team Leader Li, what's wrong?"
Li Qianwei looked at the door, and there were always two or three people passing by. She pulled Qiao Xinwei down the two floors with a dazed look, and then said: "You already know my secret, so tell me honestly.
Have you and Zhu Zirui known each other before?"
Qiao Xinwei shook her head, "I swear I'm the Minister Zhu I met for the first time at the job fair." I'm so confused. Why am I asking this question again? Is what she said so unbelievable?
"There are rumors going around in the office about you and Minister Zhu, don't you know?"
"Then what can I do? If I catch someone and tell them that I have nothing to do with Minister Zhu, they won't stop talking nonsense?" She was also helpless about this matter, and those rumors spread without knowing why.
Li Qianwei added: "Minister Zhu plans to invite colleagues to dinner to explain this matter."
"It's the end of the year, doesn't the company invite its employees to a New Year's Eve dinner?"
"No, the New Year's Eve dinner is tomorrow night. This time it's Minister Zhu's private invitation, tonight."
Qiao Xinwei felt that the complexity of the matter had exceeded expectations. It turned out that it was not just because of you that you could escape unscathed. "Then what do you mean by asking me like this now?"
"I think Minister Zhu treats you unusually."
"...Don't talk nonsense, okay, Team Leader Li, I already have a husband and children."
"You are a new employee and you are still in the probation period. If you are absent from work for more than three days without reason, you will be fired immediately. But Minister Zhu said that you reported to him and the personal leave you requested will be deducted from his annual leave. Others don't know, but I know that you didn't report it to him at all.
He explained it, right?"
Qiao Xinwei was speechless, this was indeed beyond her expectation.
"It's not just this. It happened before. When you first joined the company, Minister Zhu specifically asked me to take care of you, so I thought you had known each other for a long time. Qiao Xinwei, I believe you have nothing to do with Minister Zhu, but how dare you
Can you guarantee that Minister Zhu has no thoughts about you?"
"This...you should ask Minister Zhu. I don't know anything."
Looking at Qiao Xinwei's innocent eyes, Li Qianwei felt that she was making trouble unreasonably. Her secret had been hidden for so long, and she had no hope. It was Qiao Xinwei's encouragement that made her feel for Zhu Zirui again.
Hope. But in the current situation, she herself couldn't see clearly.
No matter how powerful a woman is when she encounters love, her IQ will often be negative.
Qiao Xinwei said helplessly: "Team Leader Li, how about this? I can find a chance to test him tonight?"
"Testing? You said you have a husband and children, so you test him? Isn't that bad? You'd better be more self-respecting."
"..." Qiao Xinwei's head was filled with dark thoughts, "Team Leader Li, where did you think you were going? I mean, if I have the chance, I can tentatively ask."
Li Qianwei felt that she was really embarrassed, so she waved her hand and said, "Okay, okay, we'll talk about it that evening."
"Um."
At the dinner party in the evening, there was only one department in the planning department. There were three people at the oversized round table. At the beginning, everyone was quite restrained. After three cups of yellow soup, everyone relaxed.
Ana Shen raised her hand weakly, "Minister, I want to solve my personal problems next year. Can you give me a few more days off?"
Zhu Zirui replied tactfully: "It will be settled internally. You guys go to and from get off work together, isn't it? I will definitely give you two red envelopes, don't worry."
Everyone burst into laughter, and Zheng Tao joked: "I want to report. I want to report. Yesterday, Shen Yanqing confessed to Xiao Zhang from the human resources department, but she was rejected."
There was another burst of laughter, and Zhu Zirui asked: "Xiao Mei is not bad, and you are not bad either. There is no reason to refuse. How about I help you become a lobbyist?"