all the way

Each member of the surveying and mapping team wears a wide-brimmed straw hat, and Maoer also sent one. Although the little guy is not too short, he is too thin. Wearing a big straw hat looks like a monkey carrying a big gun.

But Maoer likes his straw hat very much. Dressing up like Liu Xia makes him feel like he is working with his uncle. No matter how hot the weather is, he will always wear a big straw hat to follow along so as not to interfere with Liu Xia's work. In the nearest place, Liu Xia concentrated on checking the instrument and taking records. As long as he raised his head, he would see the happy figure of the little guy.

Liu Xia didn't have the empty but anxious feeling when he was in the Western Central Plains work area last time. The happy figure of the little guy filled his heart, and he was in a peaceful joy all day long, steadfast, at ease, and peaceful.

In this good state of mind, Liu Xia arranged his work in an orderly manner, compact but not tense.

For the first time, he unconsciously began to enjoy his work instead of doing it to complete tasks and earn more bonuses.

The construction team of the old base initially regarded Liu Xia as an intern student. When they moved equipment and set up tents in the work area, several people shouted and ordered Liu Xia and Wu Xiaolin to work, and Liu Xia and Wu Xiaolin They are also very cooperative, willing to do whatever they want without complaint.

When the work really started, the workers discovered that Liu Xia was actually the main player, and he played well.

Although appendicitis resection is not a major operation, Yue Desheng is old. Liu Xia paid special attention to taking care of him this time. As soon as the temperature rose around nine o'clock, he asked Yue Desheng to find a cool place to rest. By the way, he sorted out the data collected earlier. Data and sketches.

Yue Desheng was also happy to be at leisure. After inspecting the operation area as a whole on the first day and formulating the overall exploration plan, he confidently handed everything over to Liu Xia.

The leader of the construction team, Geng Xile, felt that something was wrong the more he looked at it, so he took a moment to ask Yue Desheng what was going on, Yue Desheng laughed and said, "Didn't you see it all? That's it!

Xiaoliu became a full-time employee in July and is now an assistant engineer. Although he is only an assistant engineer, the young man is a top student at Jiangcheng University of Surveying and Mapping. "

Geng Xile patted his thigh: "Gong Yue, didn't you deliberately trick us? Why didn't you say your full name when you introduced it and just said Xiaoliu so casually? If we pass by, this kid can still use us in the future." Help brother?"

Yue Desheng smiled: "Just you guys, I just gave the person's full name during the introduction, can you be convinced? Although you are not Wei Genyi, it's not like you haven't done the newcomer's job before, so I don't care about everything." Don’t tell me, I’ll let you see for yourself.”

Geng Xile slapped her hands: "Aren't you young before? Now I don't do that kind of thing anymore. Now everyone wants to work hard and earn more bonuses. Why run on other people's children if they have nothing to do?"

Yue Desheng patted him and said: "That's good, let me tell you, Xiao Liu is not a kid you can run on, his ability is obvious there, and the only one who is not convinced is to hold back;

It’s not that no one over there is jealous of him, but Captain Ma silently took pictures of him; during the few days when Chu Yuan was handling the formalities for him, Lao Luo still wanted to poach my corner, saying that which department the internship period was in Temporary, can't count, let me block back.

Even if I lent it to him once, he will remember it, and it will not be so easy to borrow it from me in the future.

That little Wu, Wu Xiaolin, although that kid is not good enough in ability, he is still a down-to-earth boy, and he will definitely be able to do it after a few more years of work. Don't deliberately make things difficult for him, so as not to have work in the future. Wei Genyi will rest now, and Chunming will let him He was dragged down, a large group of people from the third team was idle and moldy there, and the people from Chaoyang were busy with a project and left in advance.

Let me tell you the truth, if Captain Ma hadn’t told us to use our people, I would have brought Gao Qun and the others here. The day before we came, they had just finished a project. "

Gao Qun is the deputy captain of the first construction team and a demobilized soldier. He is Zheng Chaoyang's best friend and is as popular with the technicians as Zheng Chaoyang.

Geng Xile said: "I know, I know, I heard that Lao Wei is still working there? Captain Ma is ruthless enough, really give him a basic salary?"

Yue Desheng said: "Otherwise? The stubborn old man will lead the people to do it again for them. It will waste money and delay the construction period. Captain Ma is enough to give face to his father and elder brother. Otherwise, Captain Ma's temper will pack the parcels." Report back to the headquarters by yourself!"

Geng Xile nodded: "That's right. In our job, it's okay to complain a little bit. It's really such a jerry-built job. If something happens, we can't get over it. Old Wei's crazy is a little out of line."

Yue Desheng said: "You know that's all you need. Old Geng, you are an old man. You still can't see the current situation clearly? Be kinder to young people, and you won't suffer."

Geng Xile and the others started to have a normal attitude towards Liu Xia, a not-so-kind senior calling newcomers, not mean and run on, Liu Xia is not a delicate and sensitive Lin sister, who has no consciousness of being oppressed or bullied, but even so, two days later he I still felt the subtle changes in the workers at the old base.

In fact, there are still some jobs, and the division of labor and cooperation of the original personnel is still the same, but it is different. There is more casual intimacy between the words of a few people, and those few people have taken the initiative to do small things that come and go, and the chores are basically not allowed. When Xia started, Liu Xia no longer needed to be distracted by anything other than working hours, and all his energy was devoted to the project itself.

Mao'er still can't see those subtle twists and turns. When Liu Xia was called to set up a tent and move things, he still thought it was quite new. If it wasn't for him, he was afraid that if he did something wrong when he was helping, others would blame him. On the uncle's head, he was eager to join in the fun.

Because the weather was too hot, Liu Xia and the others had a break between 10:30 noon and [-] pm. This break was actually only for the workers of the construction team. Liu Xia and his technicians would use this time to sort out and calculate the data and sketches collected in the morning.

The time at noon is relatively long. In order to ensure the cat's sleep time at night, Liu Xia will now set aside part of the data from the previous afternoon and sort it out at noon the next day.

But the cat is highly excited every day. In the dark tent in the silent valley, only the sound of bugs can be heard. It should be easy to fall asleep, but the little guy always has a lot of happy things, no uncle I can't sleep.

Maybe others will find it very boring to hear children tell how a crab walks sideways when they find a crab in a crack in the rock, how far a grasshopper jumps in the grass and so on, but Liu Xia likes it.

When the cat described it, he seemed to be able to see the little crab running away in a hurry after being discovered, and he felt the curiosity of the cat at that time;

Imagining the grasshopper jumping in front and the cat chasing after him, he could feel the joy of the little guy holding the grasshopper in his palm;

There are also water droplets seeping from the rock wall, a particularly large green jujube on the wild mountain jujube tree, a fat bug being dragged away by ants...

Liu Xia listened to everything with great interest and enjoyed it.

Waiting for the cat to laugh and say, "Uncle, it's really interesting here, it's so beautiful to follow you." Liu Xia tightened his right arm and kissed the little guy's forehead: "Well, uncle also thinks it's beautiful, you will definitely come back tomorrow You can catch bigger grasshoppers, now, go to sleep and be good."

The little guy will turn over, put his head in his neck, put his legs around his waist, and close his eyes obediently.

Good days always seemed to pass faster, the cat felt that it was only a blink of an eye, and eleven days had passed.

Liu Xia packed the cat's schoolbag, packed some tomatoes and cucumbers, and kept explaining: "There are many cars on the road, so you can't stick your head out of the window; when you get out of the car halfway to pee, you must see if there is any car coming from behind." open the door;

Take your little brother Rui, and you have to hold the rear gate when you reach Banpo. You can see that there are no big cars in the north before you go. There should be a traffic light at that intersection. I don’t know why it hasn’t been installed;

Just buy and eat whatever you like, my uncle will settle the bill for you, our rent is already enough, so there is no need to save it in the future;

Also, the watermelon will soon be out of seedlings, so if you see some good ones, buy more and store them away, or you won’t be able to buy them if you want to eat them again in the future;

I haven’t drank milk for so many days. When I go back, I have to drink three times a day to make up for it. I also have pork ribs. I need to buy some with crispy bones so that you can grow taller..."

The cat was so listless that its skin was peeling off, it kept looking at Liu Xia's face with aggrieved eyes, but refused to nod obediently as before.

Vice-captain Pan Liucheng's parents-in-law are both in Qiaoyun City. He finished a project three days ago and came back with his wife to visit the elderly. They stayed for two days. Go straight back to Rong Ze.

Du Tao drove him this time.

For Liu Xia, Pan Liucheng's arrival was a pillow delivered to him when he was dozing off, which is not so appropriate anymore.

He has been worrying about how the cat will go these two days, and he is worried about letting the cat take the long-distance bus alone. If he sends the cat back, the progress of the project will definitely be affected, and he thinks it is too inappropriate.

Now, just let the cat take advantage of their car to go back.

But Mao'er was unwilling, he was still making the last effort, holding Liu Xia's waist and shaking: "Really, Uncle, Uncle Wan and Aunt Guo have told me that the car from Qiaoyun to Yuancheng takes four hours. It's the day's report time!"

He will only report for school tomorrow, and he can stay with his uncle for one more day. He doesn't want to leave now.

After packing up the things, Liu Xia turned the little guy to the front, hung up his schoolbag, hugged and patted to coax him: "My dear cat, long-distance car rides are not what you think about. The time wasted waiting back and forth on the road is worse than yours." It takes a long time to ride a car;

You go in Uncle Du's car, and you don't need to use the car to turn around, and you will be pulled back to our yard directly. If you take the car alone, Uncle is worried. "

If Mao'er was really allowed to take a long-distance bus by himself, Liu Xia probably wouldn't be able to do anything with peace of mind until he got the definite news that Mao'er had arrived home safely.

Yue Desheng and Wu Xiaolin thought that if that was the case, it would be better for Liu Xia to send the cat back. Although it would take two days, it would definitely be better than Liu Xia not working for a week at all.

The cat was dragged and carried on the jeep. Pan Liucheng and his wife looked at the uncle and nephew and laughed straightly: "Liu An, you were so sensible and capable when you were alone at home, why are you such a rascal today?"

Only then did Mao'er feel a little ashamed, loosened the legs around Liu Xia's waist, and looked at Liu Xia with a puffy face.

Standing by the side of the car, Liu Xia put his arms around Mao'er who was already sitting in the passenger seat and said to Pan Liucheng: "Captain, sorry for your inconvenience, when you go back, take Liu An to find Brother Chu Yuan and ask him to write an IOU. He has the chapter, I will not deny it."

Pan Liucheng said: "It's okay. If you can't go back, I'll tell the team leader that it will be fine a few days later. You are working outside, and you didn't refuse to pay on purpose!"

During lunch two days ago, Yue Desheng accidentally mentioned that there is a rule in the team that employees can borrow no more than 2000 yuan in cash from the financial office of the unit when they need it urgently, and they can pay it back within two years.

If it wasn't for the lack of a phone call, Liu Xia wanted to tell Chu Yuan that he wanted to borrow 2000 yuan.

He hasn't received his salary and bonus in July. He estimates that it should be no less than 500 yuan. He will have to work on this project for at least a month. Thousands of [-] yuan, and the payment for the house is still inexhaustible.

"Thank you!" Liu Xia said to Pan Liucheng, and then to Du Tao: "Liu An is a little motion sick, brother Du, take care of him."

Du Tao patted his chest: "Can you still trust my skills? Every time Captain Pan comes back, except Brother Xiaole, he just asks me to drive. If you don't believe me, just ask."

Liu Xia said: "Trust." He looked down at the cat: "Good boy, goodbye to my uncle."

Up to now, the cat knew that it was useless to struggle, and took the initiative to sit back on the seat: "Goodbye, uncle, I will write to you as soon as I get home, and you can write to me too. You can finish your work early and I will give you a letter." You make dumplings to eat."

In the area Liu Xia and the others explored this time, there is a security patrol point in the mining area nearby, which is able to communicate.

This comforted Liu Xia a lot, the feeling that he could only send a letter last time but couldn't receive a reply from Mao'er was really disturbing.

Liu Xia couldn't help but hugged the little guy again, then took a step back and closed the door.

The car drove away, and the cat who had been languidly lying on the car window suddenly smiled: "Uncle, hurry up and come back to eat dumplings, it's too late and there will be no leeks, dumplings stuffed with radish are not good, eat too much Still farting all the time."

Liu Xia smiled and waved his hands: "Uncle, I know, I will definitely try to go back early and eat leek dumplings a few more times. Goodbye, dear cat!"

When the car was completely out of sight, Liu Xia turned around and left with Wu Xiaolin.

Wu Xiaolin jokingly said: "Oh, I originally expected to lend you some money and get closer to you. I will feel more balanced when I trouble you again in the future. Now there is no hope."

Liu Xiaqiang cheered up and responded to him jokingly: "From now on, I might as well charge you for supplementary lessons, ten yuan an hour, so that you will be more balanced."

Wu Xiaolin stopped suddenly: "Really Xiaoliu? Five yuan is okay, two hours a day."

Liu Xia punched him vigorously: "Just those few deposits will burn you, what balance to find, I'm fine anyway, it's not bad to have an addiction to being a teacher on you, don't tell me Hypocritical."

Wu Xiaolin immediately shouted respectfully: "Professor Liu!"

Liu Xia raised his foot and kicked over, Wu Xiaolin laughed and ran away, Liu Xia was behind, walking slowly towards the work site.

After Liu Xia came out, he had been worrying about the house payment. After thinking about it for a few days, he decided to ask Wu Xiaolin to borrow money.

Wu Xiaolin told Liu Xia that his parents are both workers and his work unit is okay. Wu Xiaolin is also the youngest child in the family. He has an older brother and an older sister who are already married and have children.

In order to let Wu Xiaolin get a good unit, his father recruited many people and spent a lot of money, and finally got him into Liu Xia's unit.

The day before he reported to the hydrographic team, his father told him that his unit was going to raise funds to build a family building, and his father was qualified to share a house. The family did not have enough money, and the family would not subsidize him for at least three years. But he doesn't have to pay money to his family, let him learn to plan by himself, and save money for marriage and love.

Since Wu Xiaolin went to work, he kept 50 yuan for himself every month, and the rest was deposited in Yinhuan in lump sum.

Liu Xia tried to ask him a few days ago, and Wu Xiaolin immediately agreed to lend him all the savings.

However, the next day, Liu Xia heard from Yue Desheng that he could borrow money from his work unit. Liu Xia felt that it would be better to borrow money from the public office, so that he could do business without falling into debts.

When he told Wu Xiaolin, Wu Xiaolin was quite disappointed.

Wu Xiaolin really wanted to lend the money to Liu Xia. He said it as a joke, but it was actually the truth.

Although he knew that there was no safety issue for the cat to go with the car, Liu Xia was still out of his mind all afternoon, feeling uncomfortable that he couldn't see the little guy.

Going back to the tent at night is even more boring. Doing calculations, there is no little guy lying on the side with his chin in his hands and looking at him with admiration;

Lie down, there is no little guy slipping back and forth in your arms to tell him interesting things about those little bugs among the flowers and plants;

Sitting up to write a letter, the whole heart is empty and I don’t know what to write;

The little guy just left in the morning!

Liu Xia didn't know that Mao'er was also worrying about the letter at this time, wondering how things ended up like this.

Mao'er returned to the hydrology team today at 02:30 pm. They stopped in Yuancheng for a while, and Pan Liucheng invited Du Tao and Mao'er to have a meal of Heji Braised Noodles.

After Mao'er came back, he called Liu Chuan in the reception room, then left the things at home, and took Liu Xia's badge to find Pan Liucheng.

Pan Liucheng had already greeted Chu Yuan. Maoer wrote the loan note, signed his and Liu Xia's names, stamped it with Liu Xia's stamp, and Pan Liucheng also signed his name and fingerprinted it.

On the issue of money, Chu Yuan was very serious. If there was no letter from Liu Xia, he would have asked Pan Liucheng to write the loan note.

Mao'er also signed and stamped to receive Liu Xia's July salary and bonus totaling 790 yuan.

Chu Yuan didn't give him the special subsidy for the team leader, he was afraid that the cat was too young and would go out and talk nonsense.

When I got home, Mao'er put the money in the locker and locked it, then rode a bicycle to report to school, and when he came out at the school gate, he saw fourth uncle Liu Yu who was sweating profusely.

Maoer wrote: No matter what I say, the fourth uncle insists on keeping the money. In the end, I had no other choice, so I said, we only need 300 yuan, and I can ask him to give me [-] yuan.

But the fourth uncle said, of course you took the fourth uncle's money to pay, and returned the unit's money to others. Could it be that the people in the unit are closer to the fourth uncle?

I can't say no to my fourth uncle, he insisted on keeping all the 500 yuan.

But I asked my third uncle to take the money away, otherwise, with so much money, I would have nothing to do.

Liu Chuan originally gave Liu Xia a little money he saved privately and a temporary loan from a colleague. He and Su Xiaohui also saved 500 yuan together. When Liu Xia paid the first batch of house payments, the 32 yuan The fifth day is still [-] days away and less than a year. For the sake of interest, Liu Chuan did not go to withdraw the money, because the money is due in August, which is completely in time for Liu Xia to pay the second batch of house payments on the National Day.

Most of the 500 yuan was saved by Liu Chuan and Su Xiaohui after they sent their two sons back to Liujialing. The children were not with them, so a lot of daily expenses were saved, and they no longer had to pay the cousin who used to look after the children tens of dollars a month. They feel that they are much better off financially.

The two decided to save Su Xiaohui's salary and bonuses as much as possible, and only spent Liu Chuan's, two sons, and they had to consider buying a house.

Last year, Liu Chuan only had a salary and no bonus, plus Liu Rui also came to Rongze to go to school, ate in the cafeteria of the Public Security Bureau, and his and Liu Wei's daily expenses, Liu Chuan's salary was not enough at all, he and Su Xiaohui They didn't save enough 500 yuan for a year. They didn't deposit this money in the bank, and they planned to pay the tuition fees for Liu Yun and Liu Lei when they went to kindergarten.

After Su Xiaohui came back from Liujialing after school started, Liu Chuan discussed with her and wanted to lend the [-] to Liu Xia.

Su Xiaohui made a plan. His younger brother Su Xiaozhi is going to get engaged within this year. Her parents are going to open the wing room in winter to prepare for Su Xiaozhi's marriage next year. They definitely need their support.

In the end, the two discussed it. It was cheaper for the Su family to build a house in the countryside. They would give seven hundred, and Liu Xia would give one thousand and two. When Liu Xia came back, he would send the money to him.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Maoer came back, he called Liu Chuan and said that Liu Xia could borrow 2000 yuan from his work unit.

Because Mao'er didn't tell him Liu Xia's wages that hadn't been paid to him on the phone, Liu Chuan's calculation is: Liu Xia has the two thousand, plus Yuzhi and the money he gave Liu Xia, if He brought over one thousand and two, and Liu Xia can now pay the full payment for the second installment of the house.

Liu Chuan felt that the sooner the rent was paid in full, the better, and he was completely at ease when he could get the key.

So he immediately went to get the money and came over. Unexpectedly, Liu Yu was also here, arguing with Mao'er about money.

Liu Yu only heard about Liu Xia's plan to buy a fund-raising house from Ma Xiaojun last Sunday, but Ma Xiaojun didn't know the details.

Ma Deying now lives in Rongze County, and his wife and children usually only go back to Mazhai’s hometown on Sundays. He himself has not stopped working at the valve factory in Rongze County, and he often comes back, so he is very concerned about the market of Rongze’s fund-raising houses. clear.

After Liu Yu asked him, he knew that Liu Xia would need at least 8000 yuan to buy a house, and it is impossible for Liu Xia to have that much money now. Liu Ling told him that when Liu Hai left, the cat took Liu Xia All deposits were withdrawn and taken away by him.

Liu Yu immediately went back to Liujialing, he is mature now, if Liu Xia knew about the fund-raising house, if he kept it a secret from him, he would definitely not want the rest of the family to know, so what he said to Liu Changchun and Sun Yufang was The factory cannot be turned around for a while, so Ma Deying wants to use their money to turn around temporarily.

Both Liu Changchun and Sun Yufang didn't understand these things. The money was earned by Liu Yu's hard work, and the two of them asked him to take the money away without saying anything.

Mao'er insisted that Liu Xia could save enough money for the second installment of the house before the National Day, and Liu Yu said that he could not borrow money from outsiders instead of relatives. Finally, Mao'er couldn't see Liu Yu's sadness and took the money.

Mao Maoer refused to take Liu Chuan's money. He settled the accounts for Liu Chuan one by one, and showed Liu Xia's July salary and bonus to Liu Chuan. Finally, he convinced Liu Chuan that their money was inexhaustible now. It is definitely impossible for Mao'er to return the money he just borrowed from Liu Xia's work unit.

Maoer wrote: I want to give the extra money we have to the third uncle first, and ask him to repay the money we borrowed for us last time, but the third uncle is as difficult to talk to as the fourth uncle, and he refuses to ask for it no matter what. There is a way, uncle, when you come back, you can give the money to third uncle, I know you don't want him to borrow other people's money, for fear that others will laugh at third uncle.

Mao'er didn't know, but the next day Liu Chuan took out 200 yuan from the [-] yuan he planned to give Liu Xia, and returned it to Qiu Zhiwu first.

Maoer wrote at the end of the letter: Uncle, the school will officially start tomorrow, and the teacher asked to sit in the classroom at 05:30. I should go to bed, and you should go to bed early. You promised me that I will go to bed before 10:30 in the evening , Can't talk doesn't count.

Uncle, I was lying on the ground just now, although there is only a bare mat and a pillow, even though you have been away for twelve days, the mat and pillow still smell of you, it smells so good.

Don't worry about me, smelling your scent, I can fall asleep soon.

However, I don’t know why, I want to dream about you, but I can’t dream of you once. Now I suddenly think, is it because you never thought about dreaming about me? If you also want to dream about me, then I I will definitely find you in my dream.

Uncle, after you receive my letter, you must think about it several times before going to bed every day. You want to dream of me, be sure, then you will definitely dream of me, and I will also be able to dream of you.

If I haven't dreamed of you in a week, it must be because you didn't think about it, and I got angry. I really get angry. When I get angry, I can be very powerful. If you don't believe me, come back and see me and try.

I can think of you Liu An

199*, 8, 27

Liu Xia leaned on the blanket, looked at the cat's letter, couldn't help laughing, the little guy didn't know, he was also confused by the same question:

He misses the little baby so much every day, but why can't he dream of it no matter how hard he tries?