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Mao'er lost his temper this time, and Liu Xia's various apologies were ignored. After the little guy returned home, he finished scolding Liu Xia, and started washing vegetables and cooking. Liu Xia wanted to help and take the opportunity to reconcile. Mao'er didn't even look at him, which made Liu Xia very embarrassed.

Mao'er had to go to school for evening self-study at six o'clock, so they started eating at a little after five o'clock. Liu Xia brought food for the little guy, got buns, and took the initiative to tell jokes. He was extremely attentive, but Mao'er was always tense. He ate his own food with a straight face, as if he hadn't seen it.

Liu Xia was completely at a loss, in order to prevent the situation from getting worse - Mao Er threw herself away from school and ran to study alone. The bicycles were rolled out and waited in front of the building.

Mao'er went downstairs with her schoolbag on her back in a short time. Liu Xia's bicycle was blocked in the middle of the narrow path. Mao'er tried to ignore Liu Xia and walked straight over with a sullen face, but was let go by Liu Xia with one arm around his waist. on the beam.

The cat kicked its legs and struggled to jump down. Su Chunhong, who lived in the room on the right side of the stairs, just came out, and said with a smile, "Liu Xia, are you going to send you Liu An to school?"

The cat stopped moving for a moment, and sat there obediently, with a little smile on his face.

Liu Xia replied with a smile: "Well, let's go, the wind is blowing today, we can't ride fast, and we, Liu An, will be late." After speaking, he stepped on the car and started it while whistling.

Although Mao'er is in a cold war with Liu Xia, but he absolutely doesn't want others to see his uncle's jokes. The quarrel with Liu Xia in the car this morning was seen by so many people, and Mao'er already regretted it in his heart , so now that he is angry again, he won't let more people see him ignoring uncle.

The wind was indeed a bit strong, and it was bitingly cold. The cat's little face was numb from the cold. He just wanted to rub it with his hands, but a big hand covered the part under his eyes.

Although wearing gloves, the cat can still feel that the palm of the big hand is very warm, but the fingertips are icy cold.

Liu Xia held on to the handlebar with one hand, covered the cat's face with the other, and rode all the way to the county gate.

There are still about seven or eight minutes until the class is due. There are many students who come to the school by bike or on foot. Liu Xia took the cat down and straightened his hair that was blown by the wind: "The wind is strong, fast forward Classroom, my uncle is still standing there to pick you up after school."

Mao'er pouted, blinked and looked at Liu Xia a few times, then turned and walked into the school gate.

Liu Xia watched the other two students shouting "Liu An" and ran a few steps to catch up with Mao'er. Mao'er continued to walk forward while talking with the two boys, turned the car around, and rode slowly towards Mao'er. go back.

Liu Xia rode about 30 meters, turned the handlebars and turned back.

Immediately to the east of the school entrance, there are four or five small bungalows that were temporarily built. It was after several families on the west side of the school discovered that itinerant hawkers with carts made a lot of money selling things during the time when students were commuting to and from school. I built a house here and started a small shop.

These houses are absolutely illegal. They take up about one-third of the narrow road connecting the county to Zehe Road, and they are also very rough and ugly, which adds a lot of traffic to the leaders of the county.

But the school occupied the place of this production team at the beginning, and the members of this production team are standard local snakes among the leaders of the county. Dare to say, otherwise people would really dare to double the width of the house or even show it to them.

It is winter now, and the business of small shops is very light, so except for the one selling sesame seed cakes on the east side, it is still open, and the other shops have closed down in recent days.

Liu Xia parked the car near the door of the house in the middle, then walked slowly forward leaning against the wall, and when he reached the corner of the house on the west end, he carefully stretched out his head...

A pair of dark eyes opened wide, staring at him for a few seconds, then blinked a few times, the little face below suddenly turned red, the little guy turned around and wanted to run, but Liu Xia grabbed him and hugged him : "Haha, you stinky kitten, it hurts my uncle's liver to be bullied. You were hiding here waiting to see a joke!"

Mao'er still wanted to put on a sullen face, but failed. If he was too happy and felt a little bit overwhelmed, he simply hugged Liu Xia's neck and stuck his head firmly in the socket of his neck to prevent Liu Xia from seeing him. s face.

Liu Xia rubbed the little guy's head with a smile on his face: "Okay, my uncle is not lying to you. I will really think carefully before buying things in the future. Don't spend money randomly. Be good and don't be angry."

The little head moved, and said softly: "In such a cold day, the money you earn after going out every day is so tiring, and you will spend it all in a while...Didn't we agree to buy a big house for the grandparents to live in?" Is it? You spent all the money, when will we save enough money to buy a big house? I miss grandma and them."

Liu Xia rubbed his little head: "Although we want to save money to buy a big house, grandpa and grandma definitely don't want to see their precious cats in old clothes for the New Year! The things my uncle buys for you are small things during the Chinese New Year." Babies should have some, and my uncle also likes to see his cute clothes for the New Year.

Alright baby, we're going to be late, let's go in. "

Mao'er got down, put his arms around Liu Xia's waist and hugged him vigorously, raised his face and smiled happily at him, and then ran into the school.

The cat was very happy all afternoon: Fortunately, I don’t worry that my uncle ran out again and wanted to take a peek at him, or else I would have to fight hard with my uncle when I got home at night, and I couldn’t say anything if I wanted him to carry me upstairs. There is definitely no way to sleep with my uncle in my arms at night.

The feeling of being angry with my uncle is not beautiful at all. Although I specifically wanted to teach my uncle a lesson so that he could improve his memory, but seeing him admit his mistakes and apologize, I was even more unhappy; it’s better now, my uncle went back so happily, and I So happy too.

Hehe, it's so beautiful, and I'm reconciled with my uncle.

Although Liu Xia and the others set off at seven o'clock every day and finished work at around six o'clock in the past few days, they spent nearly an hour more in actual measurement every day. The nearest section of the Yellow River.

But this gave Liu Xia a bad premonition, but in order to let himself have a solid and peaceful Spring Festival, Liu Xia deceived himself and refrained from asking Luo Shuiwang where the scope of their mission's work area reached the farthest.

On the morning of the fourth day of resumption of work, not long after Liu Xia and the others started working, at around nine o’clock, small snow particles began to fall in the sky. The snow particles were very small, but densely packed. Low and it will feel very, very cold.

The wind along the Yellow River was relatively strong, but now Liu Xia truly experienced the feeling of a wind cutting his face like a knife.

This seemingly inclement weather has no substantial impact on their current work, so except that they put their hands to their mouths to breathe a little more than usual, everything else remains the same.

Liu Xia was operating the instrument to report the data in the ice and snow, but he couldn't stop thinking about the cat who took the Chinese exam today. He didn't know what the topic of today's composition was. The little guy should be worrying about the topic at this time, right?

My baby is so smart, I can recite almost all the past posts proficiently, but why can't I use a single sentence when I write an essay?Couldn't it be my uncle who was born with insufficient literary cells to infect the baby?

After lunch, the snow fell less densely, but it didn't stop until they finished work at five o'clock in the afternoon.

In such weather, the visibility is very low. Today they called off work early, and it was just 06:30 when Liu Xia and the others returned to work.

Liu Xia still looked in the direction of his home as soon as he jumped out of the car. This time he saw two people rushing out of the stairs before seeing the light from the window.

"Fifth Brother and Sixth Brother." Liu Xia didn't care to talk to his colleagues around him, and ran towards Liu Ling and Liu Hai, and was hugged by Liu Hai at the small intersection leading to the dormitory building.

Liu Hai hugged Liu Xia and turned around in a circle: "My fifth brother and I have come out to see you [-] times, thinking that you should have come back long ago on such a day, who knows that you still did it?" It's dark!"

Liu Xia hugged Liu Hai's neck and laughed loudly, as soon as he put him down, he threw himself in front of Liu Ling, who held out his hand and rubbed his face a few times: "Boy, are you still not resting in this weather? Do you have to work until this time?"

Liu Xia put his hand on Liu Ling's and rubbed it vigorously: "It can't be helped, it will only cover the ground after snowing for a long time, so you have to keep working if it doesn't affect the data collection."

Liu Ling Liu Hai is back.

Sitting under the warm quilt, with the sleeping cat in his arms, and the fifth and sixth brothers who he missed every day, Liu Xia felt that the northwest wind whistling outside the window was a little more tender.

Liu Hai leaned against the corner, with a worried and a little sad expression in his excitement: "Uncle Zeng said, for my profession, academic qualifications and graduation certificates are not unimportant, but they are not as important as you who study science and engineering, so he gave them to me." I arranged this way, Yaoer, fifth brother encouraged me for so many days, I was still a little afraid to see my uncle, my mother, and my eldest brother.

It’s good that Uncle Zeng found a guarantor for me, but you all know our family’s temperament, they must still feel that they owe him a huge favor, and they must think about saving me some money in the future, and try to call me I will not be punished if I leave it outside, and I will not owe anyone more.

In the past few years, our family has had a better life. My uncle, my mother, and my eldest brother have only had a few days of comfortable life, and I have to find such a big thing for them again, and I have to make them worry about me all day long. "

Liu Xia said: "What are you talking about? Sixth brother, the bigger this kind of thing is, the happier our uncle, mother, and elder brother will be. You just need to remember that after you arrive in France, you often write letters to your family. I know what you're going to do.

Back then when you went to the capital, you knew that you were with Uncle Zeng, eating, clothing, and clothes would definitely be much better than staying in our house, but our mother still cried in pain. After you left for many days, no one in our family dared to mention you Li Minger, my mother shed tears when she said it, just like those days after our fifth brother went to serve in the army.

As far as our uncle has been abroad, he still went to war. North Korea is much poorer than our country, so our family has no experience to tell you, you should be careful when you go out.

Brother Wu, you mentioned guarantees when you were leaving school, it was too much, I don’t think it’s worth the [-]% even if you sell me, so I didn’t say anything.But what about your living expenses in the future, I may be able to help you a little. I heard Mao Jianyong said that RMB is exchanged with Hong Kong dollars and US dollars. Our RMB seems to be very worthless. However, one thing is always better. If I can do it a month I'll give you five hundred, and it's almost the same for France as fifty..."

Liu Hai said: "Boy, don't worry about it. Uncle Zeng said that you can work part-time in France. The French also have a special interest in art. If I work hard, I can support myself by painting on the streets in my spare time.

Uncle Zeng said that he didn’t want me to study for so long in the preparatory course, so he let me leave later in the year. He said that European University has various scholarships. As long as I work hard, he said that I will not starve to death even with the scholarship. ;If I paint more, maybe I can still subsidize our family! "

Liu Ling snorted Liu Hai's head: "Baby, it won't count until you get the scholarship. Before you get the scholarship and work to earn money, you should ask Brother Wu and our youngest to subsidize you first." , so at least I can rest assured at home."

Liu Hai also snorted his own head, he now has short and broken hair similar to Liu Ling: "There are still almost three months left, if you put it this way, why do I feel like I should leave tomorrow It's the same."

Liu Xia stepped on Liu Hai: "Sixth Brother, that Vivien Wen didn't succeed in going abroad, but you might go abroad. Tell me, if she finds out, will she take the initiative to come back to you?"

Liu Hai rolled his eyes: "Who knows who she is? Don't say that I have gone abroad, I just go back to our house and put Liujialing to plant for the rest of my life. If she asks me again, I won't talk to her anymore."

Liu Xia stepped on Liu Ling again: "Fifth brother, tell me, is it true that all girls and women in this world are like this? My sixth brother met Vivien Wen, who is this kind of person. Brother Zhenbei is so handsome, or A high-ranking cadre, I still have a bright future in the army, and his girlfriend can dump him for someone else."

Liu Ling looked at Liu Xia with the eyes that you understand what, and said: "I think Fei Wenwen is a bit flamboyant towards your sixth brother, but Chen Zhenbei is definitely not. After two months of dating, I gradually saw through his rascal nature hidden behind his gorgeous human skin, that's why they dumped him.

You haven't been with him for a long time, that guy is just a standard rascal, except for training and meetings, he doesn't look good at any time, he has no skin and no face all day long, and he is still untouchable.

You asked your sixth brother, he told us all the way that it would be boring to stay at his house for the New Year. When we got to the station, I joked with him and said, 'Then why don't you just buy a ticket and go back to Liujialing with us? It’s not that I don’t know, my family’s New Year’s Eve is very beautiful and very interesting’, but after he got on the train with the platform ticket, he couldn’t live and die, saying that he would go to make up the ticket after the train opened, if I hadn’t pushed him down , that thick-skinned really came back with me. "

Liu Xia looked at Liu Hai: "No way? It's the Chinese New Year, so he's not afraid that his family will be angry?"

Liu Hai said: "Really, you don't know, Brother Zhenbei usually looks at you guys, you are so stubborn, but sometimes you really act like a child.

Everyone in Ye'erhei could tell that our Fifth Brother was watching him nagging for a long time and deliberately coaxing him and joking with him, but he insisted on not getting out of the car at that time.He also applied for family leave at the same time as Wu Ge, saying that good brothers should stand at attention, take a break, and leave at the same time, and they have to ask for leave as well. "

Liu Xia thought of Chen Zhenbei, Liu Changqing, and Liu Chuan's serious expressions when they talked, and thought about his unscrupulous scolding of Zhou Lijuan, and found it quite interesting: "Maybe Brother Zhenbei's family is really boring, so why don't you celebrate the New Year?" Who doesn’t want to live comfortably at their own home and have a good reunion with their family for a few days, but wants to go all the way to other people’s homes, especially ours, and their legs will be broken every time they walk.”

Liu Ling nodded: "I remember what I told you in the letter, right? I went to his house with him in November, and the private yard was even more spacious than Uncle Zeng's house, and the flowers and plants in the yard were much bigger than that of Uncle Zeng's." Uncle Zeng's house is still exquisite, there are guards and nanny at home, his father and elder brother were also at home that day, and they can speak well.

I don't know why, but I just feel that his house has no sense of home, and it feels cold to people. I think if it were me, I might not like staying in such a house. "

Liu Xia said: "That's right, brother Zhenbei is pitiful, why do you insist on being pushed down by others? Anyway, he is fine on vacation, so it's fine to ask him to come to our house to play, and then you will return to the team together."

Liu Hai said: "That's what I said to our fifth brother. He insisted that what he said was inappropriate and inappropriate, so he just pushed brother Zhenbei down. I think brother Zhenbei looked a little sad on the platform, but My fifth brother said he was just pretending, that brother Zhenbei is just a rascal, in order to achieve his goal, he can pretend to be anything."

Liu Ling said: "Boy, you are really young, you don't know anything, it's Chinese New Year, everyone has to reunite.

Company Commander Chen and his two sisters came back from abroad for the New Year, and he ran with us. It turned out to be a joke. Think about how angry his family is.

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If this matter is left on us, our family will feel uncomfortable. "

Liu Xia thought for a while: "That's right. It sounds like it shouldn't be a big deal to break up families and reunite on New Year's Eve."

After all, the snow did not fall heavily. Liu Xia and the others, like the other measurement teams, did not stop their work because of the snow.

However, this snow had some impact on the townships in Wangning. After the snow, the temperature continued to drop, and a layer of ice formed on the Qianhe Mountain Highway. The bus to Wangning had to detour to Sandaohe.

There will definitely be frozen ice on the upper kiln slope, although the ice will not be too thick, but it is very dangerous to walk on, so Liu Chuan does not allow Liu Ling and Liu Hai to go home, making them at least three days before the sun can leave.

Mao'er and Liu Rui take one test a day. This week they finished the three main subjects, language and mathematics, and they will start taking the supplementary test next week.

On Sunday, the weather was still gloomy and cold. After Liu Xia went to work, Liu Ling and Liu Hai took the cat to Liu Chuan in the old city. Together with Su Xiaohui, Liu Wei and Liu Rui, everyone spent most of the lively day.

When Liu Xia came back in the evening, he ate the sumptuous and delicious meal that Liu Ling and Liu Hai cooked together; Talking is in the middle of the night.

Early on Monday morning, Liu Xia and Mao'er got up early with Liu Ling and Liu Hai. After dinner, Liu Xia and Mao'er took Liu Ling and Liu Hai to the bus station and looked at the car they were sitting in. After driving out of the bus station, Liu Xia quickly sent the cat to school on his bicycle.

Mao'er has four exams this week, one a day. After finishing the last geography exam at noon on Thursday, she doesn't have to go to school in the afternoon.

After the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the team distributes things almost every day, rice, white flour, peanut oil, jujube, apples, pears, quilt covers, bed sheets, etc. Anyway, whatever is needed in life, the team may distribute.

It turned out that Liu Xia couldn't come back at noon, and even if the cat came back, he always hurriedly put down the food he bought at the Public Security Bureau, and then ran away on his bicycle. .

After the cat was at home after the exam, he started to sign for Liu Xia to collect things like other family members. Every day when Liu Xia came back, there was almost one new item in the house.

According to the lunar calendar, the 22nd of the twelfth lunar month, Maoer went to school to receive the notice, which means it is officially a holiday.

After receiving the notice, Liu Rui came to the hydrographic team with Maoer. In the afternoon, Liu Wei also came, and he was also on vacation.

At night, Liu Wei, Liu Rui, Liu Xia, and Maoer lived here together. The three students who finished the exam were particularly relaxed and happy, especially Maoer. His Chinese score of 72 did not affect his mood in any way. The little guy didn't care. Said: "Uncle said, he must make a more beautiful certificate for me this year. I don't care about the school's certificate. It's so ugly."

The next morning, Liu Xia and Mao'er took Liu Wei and Liu Rui to the bus home again.

At ten o'clock, while Mao'er was doing her homework, someone below called to go to the warehouse to pick up things. Together, Mao'er and Guo Liping went to get a Raschel blanket.

Maoer was very satisfied with the warm light orange blanket with big flowers that he had chosen. When he and Guo Liping were walking back with the blanket, the car coming from behind honked its horn and slowed down. up the speed.

Mao'er and Guo Liping quickly leaned to the side, and turned to look at the car at the same time. Mao'er found that Du Tao was driving, and felt strange, so he ran over and waved to Du Tao.

Du Tao stopped the car and opened the window: "Your uncle didn't come back; when Zhu Hui got out of the car, he fell and dropped the level. It couldn't be used anymore. Luo Gong asked me to come back and change it. "

Mao'er was a little disappointed, and when he was about to wave his hand to say goodbye to Du Tao, he saw the empty passenger seat, and suddenly his heart skipped a beat: "Uncle Du Tao, I want to take your car to visit my uncle."

Du Tao said in surprise: "The Yellow River beach is much colder than here, what are you going to do?"

The cat said: "It's okay. I'm not afraid of the cold. I won't make trouble when I get there. I just want to visit my uncle and surprise him. Okay, uncle? I'm sure I won't make trouble, and I won't delay your work." .”

Du Tao thought for a while, then nodded with a smile: "Okay, I also want to see how surprised your uncle is, you put your things at home, come down quickly, I have to hurry up and go there."

Mao'er happily turned around and said to Guo Liping who had been waiting for him, "Aunt Guo, can you help me lift the blanket up first?"

Guo Liping had already heard what Maoer said to Du Tao just now. She took the blanket from Maoer's hand, but persuaded Maoer, "What are you going to do in such a cold day? Your uncle and the others are working, so there is no way not to stop." Go, don't go looking for sins and suffer Liu An, you will know how cold the Yellow River Beach is now when you think about it."

The cat waved at her, opened the door of the big truck and climbed up: "It's okay, I have long wanted to see how my uncle works outside, I think it must be interesting. Goodbye, Aunt Guo."

An hour and a half later, the cat stood on the bone-chilling Yellow River beach.

He looked tremblingly at the man who was wearing a bulky army green cotton overcoat with disheveled hair, who was bending over and squinting to watch the counting on an instrument on a tripod, and softly called out: "Little uncle?"