Chapter 1395: Nuclear physics?

"Daddy—"

"Daddy—"

Li Ning had just snatched his older brother Li Tang's toy car when he suddenly heard his older sister's shout; turning his head to look, he didn't even want the toy in his hand anymore and ran over with his legs.

"Hey, hey—"

Li Xuewu smiled and responded to the surprise of his daughter and son one by one, picking them up one in each hand.

Li Shu was even better at coaxing her father; she hugged her father's neck and wouldn't let go, giving him a fierce kiss.

Li Ning followed suit, also kissing her father on the other cheek; the sister and brother were closer to him than anyone else.

"Look, you can see it's their own father."

He Yuzhu walked in from the gate, saw this scene, and teased them with a smile.

Li Xuewu was too busy "hugging left and right" and didn't even notice that someone had followed him.

He smiled, kissed his daughter, then kissed his son, and then looked at He Yuzhu and asked: "Getting off work so early?"

"I don't have a job—" He Yuzhu rolled her eyes at him, walked up to him, teased Li Shu and Li Ning, and said somewhat resentfully: "Now I'm a lonely ghost."

"Nonsense—" Li Xuewu glanced at her, bounced the children in his arms, and said: "If you don't want to do this job, then go back to the group."

"I knew you would say that—"

He Yuzhu was quite dissatisfied with his answer, glared at him, and then carried her bag toward the backyard.

Seeing her like this, Li Xuewu couldn't help but curl his lips, turned around and squatted down, took a box of biscuits out of the bag he was carrying, opened it, and shared it with Li Shu, Li Tang, and Li Ning, as well as the other children standing far away in the corner looking at him.

"You tell me first, what is your name."

Just as a little girl wearing a floral cloth bib was reservedly stepping forward to receive a biscuit, Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows, gripped the biscuit in his hand, and teased her with a smile.

The little girl immediately retreated a step in fear, her big eyes blinking as she looked at him.

Seeing that the other children had all received biscuits, she didn't dare to answer Li Xuewu's question, her eyes filled with tears, and she just couldn't help but raise her finger to pick at the corner of her mouth.

"Call him Grandpa, why don't you greet him?"

Yan Jiefang walked in from the West Courtyard gate; as soon as he passed the hanging flower gate, he smiled and taught his daughter to greet him.

Seeing Li Xuewu turn his head to look at him, he greeted him somewhat embarrassedly: "Li Ge, when did you get back?"

"Just got home." Li Xuewu turned his head to look at the little girl who was running around him and pouncing on Yan Jiefang's thigh, and said: "Here to find Guodong?"

"Yes, he mentioned it to me a while ago, wanting me to come back and help him manage the fleet; I just happened to have time today."

Yan Jiefang explained, then lowered his head to look at his daughter who was hugging his calf, and taught her with a smile: "It's Grandpa, haven't you seen him often before?"

"Grand... Grandpa—"

The little girl was a bit shy, hiding behind Yan Jiefang, but her big eyes didn't leave Li Xuewu, as if in fear, as if curious, and also as if remembering.

Li Xuewu remained squatting there, sharing a few pieces with the children who had finished their biscuits and came back to ask for more.

He shook the biscuit box at the little girl and said with a smile: "You tell me your name, and Grandpa will share some biscuits with you."

The little girl picked at the corner of her mouth, looked at him, and then looked up at her father.

Yan Jiefang had a good patience now; he reached out and took his daughter's finger out, patted her on the back, and said: "Grandpa is asking you a question, go take it, and don't forget to say thank you."

"Tha... thank you, Grandpa—"

The little girl walked over step by step under the gaze of Li Tang and the others, but very restrainedly only took one piece from the biscuit box.

Li Xuewu had been observing her; seeing her take the biscuit and then shyly hide behind Yan Jiefang again, he looked at the father and daughter with a smile and said: "The child is well-raised, and life is settled now, that's good."

"It's your magnanimity; you didn't hold it against me and even took care of me." Yan Jiefang lowered his head somewhat ashamed, looked at his daughter eating the biscuit in small bites, and asked with a smile: "Is the biscuit Grandpa gave you delicious?"

"Hmm, delicious." Yan Fang nodded very earnestly, and then turned around somewhat embarrassedly.

Li Xuewu stood up, reached out to support Yan Jiefang who was also insisting on standing up, "Saying these things is boring; don't keep the past in your heart anymore; living a good life is better than anything."

"You are right." Yan Jiefang nodded, looked at the little boy and little girl surrounding Li Xuewu, and said with a smile: "Li Shu is growing fast, and Li Ning too."

"They just eat a lot." Li Xuewu also smiled, looked down at his daughter and son, shared another portion of the biscuits in the box with them, and handed the rest to Li Shu.

"Daddy bought you other snacks, so give these to little sister Yan Fang, okay?"

"Don't, Li Ge, we have them at home." Seeing Li Xuewu's generosity, Yan Jiefang couldn't just accept it like that.

Li Shu looked at him, then looked at her father, and then nodded: "Hmm, okay, give them to little sister Yan Fang."

Getting her father's nod, she walked to the surprised Yan Fang with the iron biscuit box and handed it over.

The little girl's eyes were filled with panic, she even forgot to eat the biscuit in her hand, and looked up at her father.

Yan Jiefang wanted to push Li Shu's hand away in embarrassment, but he didn't dare, so he could only look at Li Xuewu in a dilemma.

Li Xuewu raised his chin, looked at him, and said: "Children need to interact; are you really going to be polite with me over half a box of biscuits?"

"Li Ge—" Yan Jiefang wanted to say more, but seeing Li Xuewu no longer looking at him, he said to his daughter: "Why are you calling me that? Call him again and let me hear."

"Grandpa." Yan Fang was a bit ignorant, not knowing the relationship between the adults' words; she only knew that Li Shu gave her a box of biscuits, which was the kind of delicious one she had just eaten.

It should be said that materials were scarce in this era, and city people had just barely solved the problem of food and clothing, and children were even more lacking in snacks; ordinary families couldn't afford this kind of iron-boxed biscuit.

However, for Li Shu, this was nothing; not to mention that her father hadn't treated her badly since she was young, even the countless uncles and uncles were spoiling her.

Toys, snacks, bought for her by the box.

So when her father said she could share, she sent this snack out without hesitation.

Perhaps the little girl had already tasted the joy of sharing, the happiness of giving roses and having fragrance in her hands. After sending out the biscuits, she smiled and played with her younger brothers again.

Li Xuewu looked at Yan Fang, who looked a bit like Hu Niu, and already had some guesses in his heart.

Of course, some things could be said, and some things couldn't; it wasn't his turn to take care of this child.

"Remember, what to call me next time we meet."

Li Xuewu smiled, touched her head, and exhorted: "Call me next time, and I'll give you biscuits to eat."

"Hmm, I know." Yan Fang wasn't afraid of him anymore at this moment and nodded obediently.

Yan Jiefang looked at his daughter, his eyes full of tenderness; although she wasn't his biological daughter, she was his biological niece.

Loving the house and its crow, his guilt toward his older brother and his care for his sister-in-law were all concentrated on Yan Fang.

Li Xuewu raised his chin and asked him: "What did Guodong tell you? Who did he ask you to manage the fleet for?"

"He said it was to do things for the neighborhood office; I don't quite understand either."

Seeing him ask, Yan Jiefang explained proactively, and then looked at him hopefully and said: "I really don't know how to choose; it would be great if you could give me an opinion."

"Doesn't it have to be what you want? You want me to give you an opinion." Li Xuewu looked him over and said: "Is the transport work still easy to do now?"

"You really hit the nail on the head." Yan Jiefang curled his lips, his face embarrassed, and said: "More and more cars, less and less work."

Li Xuewu looked elsewhere; how could he not know Yan Jiefang's little thoughts?

High-minded, he didn't want to come down after climbing up; it wasn't necessarily that he couldn't afford to fall, but that he was reluctant.

Yan Jiefang could be considered the first person to eat crab; he was already doing it before the tricycles in the capital became a climate, and later he even changed to a heavy-duty cargo tricycle.

It should be said that this kid wouldn't have been willing to spend time wandering around here before, and even said he wanted his opinion.

If the work was too busy to handle, even if the Dragon King came, he wouldn't listen to his opinion; now he's encountered difficulties.

As early as when he wanted to buy a car, Li Xuewu reminded him that the hardest business to do in the capital was following the trend.

As long as someone in this alley made a fortune pointing at a certain trade, even if it was just earning a little money, then you just wait and see; within half a year, the whole alley would be doing this.

Of course, perhaps it wasn't just the capital; all of China, and even the whole world, was like this.

The next step of following the trend is internal involution, rolling until this trade is miserable and no one can do it anymore.

Unless you roll out new tricks, push out the old to bring in the new on the basis of the industry, and grasp the key. But what new tricks can you get on this transport line, and what key is there?

Currently, only units can buy big trucks; individuals can't buy them even if they have money, so they can only buy tricycles.

The Red Star Automobile Manufacturing Plant only produces two types of tricycles, one light and one heavy.

Yan Jiefang was the first to change to a heavy one, but not the last; they can be seen everywhere on the street now.

It's just that it costs a few hundred more, and if you invest from the beginning, you'll earn it back in just half a year.

After personnel changes and discipline rectification, the business volume of the Beijing Railway Freight Station is getting bigger and bigger. But no matter how fast the business volume grows, it can't compare to the growth rate of transport drivers and transport tricycles, especially in this period.

But as long as the family has a little spare money, they won't have the heart to watch their children suffer in the countryside.

Take out the money for a tricycle, and several children in the family can hang on the tricycle, find a few people to apply for a cooperative group at the neighborhood office, and that counts as entering the trade.

Running to the freight station is hard work, but you can really earn money, especially those with good relationships who can always get work.

In addition, you can run scattered work, such as pulling people on the street, and distributing goods for various units and shops. Anyway, as long as you can earn money, you can do it, and you don't have to save effort.

It's been less than a year and a half since Li Xuewu pointed Yan Jiefang to buy a tricycle to run transport.

But look at Yan Jiefang's state now; he's clearly been rolled into a daze by his peers.

"What did Guodong say?"

Li Xuewu nodded to the neighbor who entered the courtyard, returned the greeting, and then looked at Yan Jiefang and asked: "Did he just let you come back to manage things?"

"He said the transport is not easy to do now, and we have to huddle together for warmth." Yan Jiefang's tone was a bit low: "He said the Dongfeng Transport Fleet is affiliated with the neighborhood office, so it's easy to do things, no one will make things difficult, and the transport volume is guaranteed."

"And then?" Li Xuewu glanced at him and asked: "How did he promise you?"

"He asked me to find more honest and reliable transport drivers, preferably from the neighborhood or near the neighborhood."

Yan Jiefang looked up at Li Xuewu and introduced: "He said he could take me to the freight station, find other units with relationships and transport needs to solicit work."

"I didn't really care how much salary he gave me; I just felt it would be good to do something."

"Bullshit—" Li Xuewu stared at him and said: "If a penny fell on the ground, you could chase it for two miles, and now you're talking to me about awareness? Fooling ghosts."

"Fine, do it if you want to, don't do it if you don't want to, anyway, you won't starve to death." Li Xuewu glared at him impatiently and said: "But I have to tell you one thing: no matter what you do, you have to open up your pattern of being a person."

"Don't be calculating about everything."

Li Xuewu looked him over and said: "You're so old, and you don't even have the responsibility to stand up?"

"Guodong doesn't necessarily have no one to use, you don't have to be embarrassed, and you don't have to stretch it out; just say what you have to say."

He curled his lips, turned his head, and said: "Brothers settle accounts clearly; you should ask for as much salary as you should; he didn't say he would use you for free, right?"

"No... no..." Yan Jiefang was seen through by him, and at this moment he couldn't even lift his head.

To be honest, Shen Guodong being able to rush to use him was mostly out of care, looking at the friendship of everyone being in the same courtyard before; if you really want to say Guodong uses people, how many people are rushing to it.

He also cursed himself for being stupid, but sometimes people's greed is uncontrollable, and he didn't have that self-control.

Only when he was scolded awake did he feel ashamed, and facing Li Xuewu's reminder, he became submissive.

Li Xuewu didn't want to see him like this, and glanced at the child again, then said to him: "Fine, the sky is getting dark, go back to Guodong early, so as not to become estranged."

"Right, I'll go right away." He wasn't as hesitant as before, and Yan Jiefang responded cleanly and crisply.

The courtyard was still the same courtyard, but it was much colder; many houses had their lights off and doors locked, not having lived in them for a whole winter, looking quite desolate and lonely.

But there are advantages to having fewer people, and that is that the days of each family are much quieter; no one is chirping across the door, and before the sky is dark, no one goes out.

Li Xuewu returned to the courtyard directly from the unit; the driver sent him and was arranged to go to the hospital to pick up Gu Ning.

It had long been agreed upon on the phone that his first meal after returning home would be at the courtyard.

The two children had been here early; if it weren't for Li Xuewu talking to Yan Jiefang, Liu Yin would have come out long ago.

Seeing Yan Jiefang leave at this moment, she came out of the room, carefully looked at her son who had been away for more than twenty days, and seeing that he was still full of life, she smiled with satisfaction.

Li Xuewu also smiled, gathered the three children in the family, walked into the room, and asked his mother about the situation during the New Year.

Liu Yin tidied the knitted hat on Li Ning's head, who was walking at the end, and introduced how this New Year was spent.

However, she only used a few short sentences, and then asked with concern about her son's life and work in Steel City.

"It's good, who could treat me badly."

Li Xuewu put the gifts he brought back on the Eight Immortals Table, scanned the inner room, and then asked: "Where did Grandma and the others go? Why aren't they at home?"

"Old Mrs. Sun in the next courtyard passed away; your sister-in-law didn't dare to go alone, so she pulled Grandma to accompany her."

Liu Yin explained: "This person is really not to be trampled on; the New Year's pass has passed, and she just fell while walking, and as a result—"

"Why is there no movement?" Li Xuewu looked toward the next courtyard, but with the door across, he couldn't see anything. "Do we still have gift money for their family?"

However, his nose and ears were sharp; if there were sounds of burning paper money and crying, he should have heard them when he entered the door just now.

"Why not, you're talking nonsense." Liu Yin scolded him: "You don't know about your older brother's wedding, but when you got married, Old Mrs. Sun brought several granddaughters to eat at the banquet; have you forgotten?"

"I really don't remember this."

Li Xuewu shook his head, coaxed the children to take off their big clothes, and hugged them to play on the kang.

Although the weather in the capital is not as cold as in the Northeast, as soon as the sun sets, it gets cold.

Especially children, who are the least able to withstand the cold; if they don't break their ears, they numb their faces, like frozen potatoes.

"Don't Dad and Xiao Laosan have time? Why not let them go over? This gift can be given at any time."

"Isn't it for you—" Liu Yin took a ladle from the water vat to boil water, preparing dinner.

Her son was willing to accompany her to talk, and she was also willing to stick to her son, talking about the family affairs around her.

"Knowing you were coming back for dinner tonight, your dad and Xiao Laosan thought about being busy for a while longer during the day and coming back on time after work."

She explained: "Your older brother is very timid; let alone being fallen to death, he wouldn't dare to go even if it was an old death."

"Don't scare him, he's really afraid of this." Li Xuewu said amusedly: "He was afraid when he was young."

"It was Old Zhao from the front courtyard who scared him." Liu Yin remembered the older son's childhood affairs and felt very regretful; if she had been more careful at the time, the older one wouldn't have been scared.

This thing is really evil if you say it's evil; Old Zhao from the front courtyard had a hard body, and after retirement, he went to the seaside to walk every day, and you couldn't see that he was about to pass away at all.

Living together for decades in the front and back courtyards, the neighbors had long been familiar with each other, and everyone knew whose child and whose elder it was.

Li Xuewen naturally knew Old Zhao, and it happened that he was afraid of someone blocking him after school that day, so he took a long detour, coming back from the seaside, and as a result, he encountered an evil thing.

On the way back, he met Old Zhao calling him, handed him a large bunch of keys, said he left in a hurry from home and forgot to leave them, and exhorted Li Xuewen to help him send them home.

Li Xuewen didn't care and agreed, and even asked Old Zhao what he was doing and why he didn't bring the keys back himself.

Old Zhao just glanced at him, didn't say anything, and went to the seaside, just like walking as usual.

Li Xuewen was only twelve or thirteen years old at the time, and since a neighbor asked him for help, he wouldn't ask again, so he took the keys and came back.

As a result, as soon as he entered the alley, seeing the neighbors coming in and out of the front courtyard, he learned from the crowd that Old Zhao from the front courtyard had passed away in the afternoon without even asking.

When Li Xuewen went to look at the keys in his hand again, where were there any keys, and he didn't know when they were gone.

Just like that, Li Xuewen was scared, didn't dare to tell his family when he got home, and fell into a big illness.

It was Li Shun who had enough experience to see that something was wrong, and only after carefully asking his son did he know what was going on.

Li Xuewu was even younger at that time, but also more stunned; he hid in the quilt and pretended to sleep while hearing about his older brother's affairs, and the next day he used a slingshot to break Old Zhao's window.

This wasn't all; he also found people to block those who bullied his older brother, made a fuss at school for a long time, and finally, after being beaten by his father, the matter was considered over.

It's not that Li Xuewu's relationship with his older brother is deeper than with Xiao Laosan.

When he was young, his older brother could only be bullied by him, and others couldn't bully him; no matter how the brothers fought, they couldn't let outsiders succeed.

Mother and son were chatting, when Zhao Yafang and Grandma entered the courtyard, followed by older brother Li Xuewen.

Seeing Li Xuewu standing in the room, Zhao Yafang opened the door with a smile and invited Grandma into the room, while greeting Li Xuewu: "I was just saying, I heard the car movement."

"Your ears are still good; Mom told me there was something in the next courtyard, but I didn't hear it."

Li Xuewu looked at Grandma and asked with a greeting: "Grandma, Happy New Year, I'm here to pay you a New Year's greeting."

As he said this, he was about to kneel down, but was stopped by Grandma with a smile, and she even hit him lightly.

"Didn't I tell you, don't kneel anymore in the future."

Grandma looked at her grandson as if everything was right, pulled his hand, and looked at him with eyes that still looked like she was looking at a child.

"It's not that your ears are not good, it's that the thing in the next courtyard is cold, and there was no sound at all."

After Zhao Yafang entered the room, she took off her coat, helped Grandma take off her coat, and explained to Li Xuewu.

"It is said that she is old, but it is also an unnatural death; many families avoid this, especially during the New Year."

"Human feelings are as thin as paper in this era."

Grandma also said with emotion: "In the past, the Sun family wasn't without wealth; how many distant relatives came to the door to ask for favors, but as a result, no one came after the person left."

"You're still worrying about that idle heart." Zhao Yafang smiled and glanced at Li Xuewu, asking: "Second brother, is it cold in the Northeast? Is it a different kind of cold from ours?"

"Hmm, dry and cold." Li Xuewu entered the room with Grandma and sat on the kang; behind him, the three little ones were lively on the kang, fiddling with Grandma's playing cards.

"Did you go too?" He looked at his older brother and asked with a smile: "Aren't you the most afraid of this?"

"I didn't go; I just came back from the bookstore and happened to catch up with your sister-in-law and Grandma coming back."

Li Xuewen pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, not paying much attention to his younger brother's teasing; this didn't count as anything at all.

Li Xuewu nodded and asked: "How is it at the Research Institute? The school hasn't had proper classes, right?"

"Hmm, it's all wasted." Li Xuewen clearly had no interest in this topic, and it was more like he didn't want to answer, very resistant to his current work.

Li Xuewu glanced at his sister-in-law and said frankly to him: "If you're not happy doing it, then don't do it; why make it difficult for yourself and make your family worry along with you."

Li Xuewen looked up, seeing his mother and Zhao Yafang dodge his gaze, while Grandma looked at him with concerned eyes, wanting to speak but stopping.

Some things are convenient for brothers to say, and others in the family are not easy to persuade him; after all, he is the eldest son of the family.

Li Xuewu never treated him as the eldest son since he was young, so these words were naturally thorough and straightforward, pointing directly to the heart.

Li Xuewen was silent for a long time, but ultimately didn't answer his younger brother's sentence, but took the initiative to talk about the Research Institute.

Zhao Yafang went to the kitchen to help her mother-in-law, but felt relieved in her heart.

Li Xuewen's performance recently was abnormal; he was such a simple person, no need to think to know where the problem was.

She also understood her husband's responsibility and commitment to teaching and educating people, but some things couldn't be done just by being anxious.

Fortunately, Li Xuewu arranged for him to go to the Research Institute; if he had been stifled at home, he might have gotten sick.

"You can ponder it later; whether it's drones or helicopters, they are all key scientific research projects of our group for the next few years and decades."

Li Xuewu looked at his older brother and emphasized: "The group attaches great importance to relevant scientific research activities now, the experimental funds are very sufficient, and the bonuses are also very willing to be given."

"I didn't really care about the bonuses; I just had nothing to do and changed places to read books."

Li Xuewen was quite free and easy about his career, unless it was the kind where he took money but wasn't allowed to do things.

He couldn't go back to the First Supervision Institute because Huang Gan had also left, and it would be inconvenient to go back.

Even if the person who succeeded Huang Gan was originally the deputy of the First Supervision Institute and hoped that Li Xuewen would go back to sit in the office, Li Xuewu didn't agree with his older brother going back to "practice" again.

Huaqing wasn't ruined, it just encountered difficulties; at this time, if you don't share weal and woe, how can you enjoy blessings together later?

You couldn't say anything a few years ago; in such a chaotic situation, taking care of yourself was the truth, and no one blamed him.

Although Li Xuewu admired his older brother's free and easy nature, he didn't agree with his values; his older brother lived too decadently.

More importantly, he couldn't enjoy this free and easy nature, so his older brother shouldn't think about being idle anymore.

"You can be indifferent to fame and wealth, but what about your sister-in-law and children?" Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows and said: "Don't forget, you're the father of two children this year."

"Another thing, Mom and Dad are both supported by you; don't come to me for money for everything later, I won't give it to you."

Liu Yin and Grandma heard this, but didn't have any reaction, and their hearts were as clear as a mirror.

Li Xuewu wanted to stimulate his older brother; who would take this seriously at this time? Hadn't the second one given enough support to the family?

Li Xuewen didn't believe that his younger brother would stand by when he was really in trouble, but it was just embarrassing.

He also knew that his younger brother was encouraging him at this time, so he wasn't angry with him. Looking at the figure busy in the kitchen, he also felt that he should raise his spirits.

A younger brother who is a cadre, a mother who takes care of the whole family, a wife who worries endlessly, and a useless him.

"Or... I'll try?"

"What did you say to your older brother tonight?"

Gu Ning tidied her freshly washed hair, turned her head to look at Li Xuewu lying on the bed, and asked: "Why is he absent-minded? Sister-in-law also looks at you frequently."

"Sigh, what else could it be." Li Xuewu sighed lightly and flipped through the big book in his hand: "Older brother wants to do something, but is timid."

"Coming out to do things?" Gu Ning frowned, looked at him, and asked puzzledly: "Older brother isn't already working?"

"The job he has is a mess."

Li Xuewu looked up at his wife, put down the book in his hand, and responded: "Do you think he looks like a professor? He doesn't want to have any emotional intelligence at all, and is lazy to the extreme."

Gu Ning rolled her eyes at him, not wanting him to talk like this, but after all, it was Li Xuewu's older brother, not her older brother.

Li Xuewu talking like this was also because he felt close to his older brother, and didn't care about anything; if he really didn't care, he wouldn't bother with him.

"You don't know, he has been enshrined by the whole family and can't touch any ground."

"What do you want him to do?" Gu Ning turned around, picked up the wooden comb, and combed her hair, reminding him: "Sister-in-law cares a lot, don't do bad things with good intentions."

"Hey, I actually found that you've changed a lot."

Li Xuewu put on his slippers, walked behind his wife, took the wooden comb from her hand, and combed her hair.

Gu Ning looked at him in the mirror and said: "What's changed?"

"Hmm, just changed." Li Xuewu also looked at Gu Ning in the mirror, nodded like a model, and said: "Answer me seriously, are you my wife?"

Gu Ning curled her lips, raised her hand to give him an elbow, but was nimbly dodged by Li Xuewu.

"Looking so good, and also understanding." Li Xuewu combed his wife's hair while looking at Gu Ning in the mirror and said: "You wouldn't be a fox spirit, would you?"

This person is getting more and more improper; Gu Ning is too lazy to pay attention to him; one more roll of her eyes is a waste of spirit.

Li Xuewu didn't care about his wife's expression, chuckled and said: "You are really beautiful."

"Give it here, I'll comb it myself."

Gu Ning couldn't take it anymore; what's the point of an old married couple doing this?

Li Xuewu didn't give it to her, continued to work with his hands, and said: "Older brother said he wanted to study nuclear physics; he said it before you came, and sister-in-law was annoyed."

"What? Nuclear physics?" Gu Ning was also stunned for a moment, then frowned and asked: "What is older brother thinking?"

"In my heart, he is a god, an immortal, just not like a normal person; you ask me what he is thinking?"

Li Xuewu said amusedly: "Wait until I'm crazy to come and ask me this question; by then I should be able to answer you."

Gu Ning understood the look in her sister-in-law's eyes at this moment, and also understood the reason for her older brother's silence.

Today is Li Xuewu's return home, the whole family is reunited, the children are lively, the adults have some problems in their hearts, they won't care, actually the adults didn't care too much either.

Li Shu and Li Ning went to sleep after returning; Li Xuewu hadn't seen his wife for almost a month, how could he let Gu Ning go? The couple finished being close before taking a bath together.

"Nuclear physics is not very good; mechanical or engineering classes are very possible, after all, it's in your unit."

This time after Li Xuewu came back, he clearly found that Gu Ning's words had increased; I don't know if it was because the couple hadn't seen each other for a long time, so they saved their words to say together.

"That's what I thought too." Li Xuewu combed her hair, put down the comb, and said: "The group is going to lay out aircraft in the future; he is just right for this aspect."

"In our group, he has funds if he wants funds, and talents if he wants talents; after two years of training, he can lead the subject himself; if he does well, he might really make a few projects."

"You just know he can do it?" Gu Ning glanced at him, patted away his strange hand, and got into bed from the other side.

Li Xuewu didn't care, returned to the bed, and continued: "You don't know older brother; he's just like a donkey; you have to put a harness on him before he knows how to walk."

"Don't say that again; if sister-in-law finds out, I don't know how she will be annoyed with you." Gu Ning pushed him, lay on her side beside him, and said: "I didn't know before that older brother was hiding in the First Supervision Institute, and what sister-in-law's mood was, until I found out you had already left for twenty days..."

"Missed me?" Li Xuewu leaned down, hugged her in his arms, kissed her, and said: "If you miss me, take the children to Steel City to see me, or call me, and I'll come back to see you immediately."

"Hmm—" Gu Ning rubbed into his arms, found a comfortable position to lie down, but didn't close her eyes, looking particularly gentle in the light of the bedside lamp.

"Give me a little more time; in less than half a year, when I sort out my work ideas and standardize the order, I'll come back to the capital more often, and you won't have to be so hard."

"It's not hard, it's the same as before."

Gu Ning said with intimacy in her voice: "Knowing you went on a long trip to work, Li Shu was very obedient, and her younger brother was also obedient; Er Ya said they grew up and were easy to coax."

"Sister-in-law's little sister will come in a few days, and she can help you busy yourself then." Li Xuewu kissed her forehead and said: "You don't have to worry about sister-in-law; just treat her as your own little sister, and treat her however you treat others."

Gu Ning looked up at him and asked: "Do you still treat me as a child?"

"How could that be? You are the mother of my child." Li Xuewu looked at her very earnestly and said: "Your training class is going to graduate this year, and Li Shu is older, so someone has to take her to study together."

"Isn't there a tutor?" Gu Ning said somewhat resistantly: "That's still a child; if..."

"Thirteen or fourteen years old; maybe still a child in the city, but already established in the countryside."

Li Xuewu patted her back with the hand that was hugging her and said: "I'm not at ease using anyone else if only Er Ya is at home alone; it's better to use her."

"Xiao Xiao can't live at home often, anyway; it's just to standardize and cultivate Li Shu and Li Ning's study habits."

He looked at the end of the bed and said: "Don't trust her too much either; it's the same for everyone; you have to have a heart of precaution."

"Hmm—" She listened to everything Li Xuewu said at this time, because what he said must be reasonable.

The reason Gu Ning's life is so simple and so worry-free is that everything is arranged by Li Xuewu.

Today she was so active because she suddenly found that she would uncontrollably panic after Li Xuewu was missing from her life. Lost, as if she had lost her backbone.

And every time she heard his phone call or received his letter, she would put down her uneasy heart a little.

She could accept Li Xuewu going on a business trip for a few days or ten days, but she couldn't accept Li Xuewu being assigned abroad for a long time.

But she couldn't hinder Li Xuewu's development and progress, so she held more emotions in her heart.

Husband and wife are one; how could Li Xuewu not know her thoughts, so he cherished the time they spent together even more.

Even though it was already late at night, the two were still like glue and lacquer, reluctant to go to sleep just like that.

From Li Xuewu's work and life in Steel City to the wedding preparations of his brother-in-law, and from the trivial matters at home to the complexity of Jin Ling.

Li Xuewu never for a moment neglected his attention to Jin Ling; the address of his father-in-law's phone calls and letters had been transferred from the capital to Steel City, and the father-in-law and son-in-law had never broken contact.

Li Xuewu really had the ability and sense of smell that Gu Haitao appreciated; unknowingly, the two got along more like comrades-in-arms.

At key nodes of some time and changes, Li Xuewu would remind his father-in-law through reasonable analysis and judgment, and his father-in-law would also actively and proactively make good use of his reminders.

This tacit cooperation and the exchange and communication that complemented each other gave both Gu Haitao and Li Xuewu gains.

Li Huai De was very afraid of him taking over too early, so he almost never introduced him to anyone in that circle of the First Ministry of Machine Building.

He could only know the few he had business contact with through work relationships; there were no more.

Circles always have thresholds, and the Red Star Steel Group also has circles. Li Huai De didn't take him up actively, so he couldn't take the initiative to associate with the other party.

Rules are rules; if everyone breaks the rules, how can the game be played?

However, there are always existences that transcend the rules of the game, such as Gu Haitao, such as the old comrades or cadres in key positions that Gu Haitao entrusted him to visit.

The Gu family's relationship network in the capital had been handed over to him, and he was almost the one maintaining it.

Gu An had long had ambitions, his heart like an eagle, only yearning for that piece of sky. Gu Yan was young and didn't establish things, and didn't have much thought to develop in this aspect, so he, this son-in-law, represented the Gu family to maintain the face and articles of a certain circle.

Otherwise, where would he get so many accurate messages? Even if his memory was excellent, it was impossible to remember so many key time nodes and key information.

Li Xuewu actually had the intention to take Gu Ning to visit those relationships, believing it would definitely get twice the result with half the effort.

Unfortunately, Gu Ning didn't want to go at all; she didn't even know those old relationships of her father.

Li Xuewu didn't dare to risk the awkward mood and force her to go, but starting this year, he also deliberately took Gu Ning to visit some real relatives and would take the children.

With the two children, Er Ya and Xiao, following, Gu Ning also had a place to be distracted, so she wouldn't be too indifferent.

If people wanted to say some idle words, there would be topics.

Li Xuewu ran several times in the few days after the New Year, arranging all the families Gu Ning could go to in the evening.

Li Shu and Li Ning were able to get it; they received red envelopes until their hands were soft; as long as Dad told them what to call, they would obediently call, and they even knew how to say Happy New Year.

And every time this happened, Li Xuewu would say "No, no, the children are still young."

And the other party would tear it and stuff it into their hands, emphasizing "This is for the children." ===== CHAPTER 1396 =====

With two children, one older and one younger, following along, Gu Ning had something to distract her, so she wouldn't seem too aloof.

When others wanted to make small talk, there was also a topic to discuss.

During these few days after the New Year, Li Xuewu ran around quite a bit, arranging all the households Gu Ning could visit for the evenings.

Li Shu and Li Ning really hit the jackpot; their hands grew soft from receiving red envelopes. As long as their father told them what to call someone, they would obediently call them that, and they even knew how to say "Happy New Year."

And whenever this happened, Li Xuewu would always say, "No, no, the children are still young."

But the other party would insist on shoving the red envelopes into their hands, emphasizing, "This is for the children."