Chapter 54: Thunder

"Fireworks, didn't you often say that you wanted to meet Brother Xu Le?"

At the dining table, Mrs. Zhong looked at her daughter gently and said softly. She felt very puzzled about her daughter's silence today. Although she rarely heard the words "Brother Xu Le" from her daughter's mouth in the past two years, even the ordinary etiquette of entertaining guests should not be so rude.

"Yeah." Zhong Fireworks held the long chopsticks in his little hand and tried hard to dig the Changyang fragrant rice in the bowl. He nodded from his cute and straight nose, but he still ignored Xu Le, who was a little embarrassed opposite the table.

Mrs. Zhong looked at Xu Le helplessly and smiled apologetically, and had to let her daughter go. After all, they were adults and would not take this matter as important, so they naturally changed the topic.

Fatty Tian had a delicate feeling that was completely opposite to his body shape when eating. He chewed slowly, took it lightly, and his fingers gently brushed across the tableware on the table like brushing through orchids. He took a sip of red wine, put down the wine glass, patted Xu Le's shoulder beside him with a smile, and said, "I heard that you have treated Du Shaoqing."

"Uh... military exercise." Xu Le was a little uncomfortable with the other party's direct enthusiasm and replied naively.

"I mean on the playground, when that kid was about to get angry, he was blocked by you." Fatty Tian said with a smile: "Very good, I admire you very much!"

Xu Le was speechless and thought that he had used his anger to suppress the iron-blooded Du Shaoqing. Speaking of which, he was just learning the method from the tiger Xilin.

"But unfortunately it's not direct enough. You should learn from me. More than ten years ago, I beat this snow demon into an ice pig demon..." Fatty Tian thought about the past and sighed with pride.

Hearing the two terms of the Ice Snow Shemale and Pig Demon, and thinking about Du Shaoqing's serious officer model image, Xu Le finally forgot the sad and cold ignorance that made him feel sad, and almost laughed out loud. He glanced out of the corner of his eyes at the hand on his shoulder that was round like a fat steamed bun, and the fat finger as cute as a mutant orchid, but his smile turned into a faint fear. If this fat man Tian started to be angry, the Commander Du was afraid that he would really suffer a lot.

"What's the result? You were imprisoned for three months and were captured to the end of your military position. When you were discharged from the army, you could only be a colonel."

When Mrs. Zhong thought of the old things, she couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook her head, but there was an unnatural and complex emotion on her cheeks.

Listening to the fierce things of these romantic figures back then, Xu Le suddenly thought that the tiger in Xilin suppressed Du Shaoqing and his Iron Seventh Division for many years, and Fatty Tian’s attacks may also be related to this. Everyone knows the relationship between the Zhong family and Du Shaoqing is extremely bad. He caused Du Shaoqing to suffer a loss during the exercise. Could it be because of this that Commander Xilin Zhong appreciated him for no reason?

Just as she thought of this, the middle-aged female housekeeper who welcomed Xu Le into the villa came over. The dishes had been put on, so there was naturally another reason for her appearance. Mrs. Zhong listened quietly, took off her napkin, stood up to greet Xu Le, and walked into the office attached to the side of the first floor.

"Today is the autumn festival, probably the boss's phone number." Fatty Tian explained with a smile, but a trace of doubt flashed between his eyebrows. If it was a home phone number, the truth is that the younger sister-in-law should have brought fireworks with her.

Xu Le couldn't think of this. In his opinion, Commander Zhong guarded the front line for the Federation. Because of the continuous conflicts and wars with the empire, he could not reunite with his family. It was normal to have a phone call with his family during today's festival. He just thought that it was the autumn day today, but Mrs. Zhong invited him to visit. It was really rare.

Who knew that after a while, the door of the side office opened and Fatty Tian left the restaurant. It seemed that Commander Zhong had something to say to him.

At this time, only Xu Le and Zhong Fireworks were left in the restaurant.

...

If it were before entering the villa, Xu Le would not resist being alone with the little girl. He did not hate being afraid of children. What's more, the person he is most familiar with and missed by the Zhong family in Xilin, is Xiao Xigua, who came to the autumn festival banquet today. Most of the reasons... I just wanted to see her and ask the little girl if she has been doing well in the past few years, how she is studying, and whether she still doesn't like eating like before.

However, the silent resistance of the meal, the uncovered indifference and pride of the little daughter of the Zhong family made Xu Le's big heart feel a little discomfort and sad. Although he could comfort himself, she was just a child after all, the huge gap between self-awareness and reality still made him feel embarrassed and lost.

There was silence on the dining table. Xu Le didn't know what to say to the little girl opposite the table. He felt a little funny and sad. In absolute silence, it seemed that he was angry with an eight-year-old girl.

So he had to bow his head and concentrate on dealing with the delicious food on the plate. He cut the 70-year-old bison meat with a silver knife. But he thought that three years ago, on the ancient clock spaceship, he once said to Xiao Xigua shamelessly that he would take her to eat real meat in the future...

Suddenly, Xu Le felt as if someone was looking at him. The mysterious power in his body had already caused him to have a sensitive aura reaction to the visits around him. He slowly stopped the sliding of the silver knife in his hand and raised his head vigilantly.

So he saw Zhong Fireworks, the child was extremely serious and clear eyes.

On that cute and tender face, there was no longer the indifference that he had deliberately shown to keep others from a thousand miles away. There was only the curiosity of the little girl, and the eyes that were wider and wider.

Xu Le's little eyes couldn't help but widen, wondering why Xiao Xigua looked at him like this.

Neither of them spoke, but stared at each other with big eyes and stared at each other inexplicably on both sides of the quiet dining table.

As if he kept glaring like this, a trace of cuteness and cunning that was unique to a child suddenly flashed in Zhong Fireworks' eyes that were extremely clean.

It seemed that it took a long time for the little girl to associate the young officer opposite the dining table with the already blurry but particularly friendly face of the simplicity three years ago. Or maybe she had already confirmed who the person opposite the dining table was, just pretending.

But in short, I was still indifferent until this time, and the little girl smiled sweetly, and said softly: "Brother Xu Le."

...

The sound was very clear and crisp, just like the dewdrops on a small white flower that had just grown in the ground moistened the tender throat. This title that I haven't heard for a long time, accompanied by a crisp and moving childish voice, touched Xu Le's eardrums and his heart.

He looked at the little girl opposite the dining table in shock, looking at the black hair cut in a straight line, and was playingfully swinging gently, as if he was back three years ago, in the simple cabin of the spacecraft, he was still bathing and washing the little girl with a towel. His expression was dazed and he didn't react for a moment.

"Brother Xu Le." Zhong Yanhua frowned cutely and shouted again very seriously.

Xu Le finally realized that although he didn't understand that Xiao Hualou was pretending to be unfamiliar with him before, when his two crisp brothers called him, his premature heart suddenly became gentle, he smiled and narrowed his eyes into a crescent moon, just like the two eyebrows in the night sky of S1.

"Take me out." Zhong Yanhua looked at him seriously through the dining table, pursing his lips vigorously, playing a cute determination and persistence.

...

When two people, one big and one small, met in the stars, the little girl blurted out: Protect me.

Xu Le stared blankly at the little girl opposite the dining table, and roughly understood something, such as why in front of Mrs. Zhong and Uncle Tian, ​​Xiao Xigua had to keep indifferent to herself and had no enthusiasm at all, as if she had completely forgotten what happened back then... The omnipotent Creator, three years have passed, and this child is eight years old. Has he still not got rid of the bad habits of the Qiao family?

No matter how thick the nerves in Xu Le's body were, it was difficult to resist the sudden impact. He could communicate with the glory of the Charter. His brain, which had put down countless structural drawings, buzzed and was about to explode. With a crisp sound, he simply fell under the table.

"What's wrong?" Mrs. Zhong and Fatty Man finished the call with Xilin, walked out of the office with a serious expression, and happened to see this scene.

The elders came to the scene, and the child Zhong Fireworks returned a faint expression of indifference and pride, gently spooned the soup in the bowl in front of him, like an irresponsible daughter of a noble family.

"It's nothing." Xu Le couldn't bear to expose Xiao Xigua's plan for Qiao's family and let her be trained. He said with a wry smile, but in fact, his mood was much better than before. At least he knew that Xiao Xigua had not forgotten him, and... he still trusted himself as much as before. Even such a big thing was trusted to him.

...

Xu Le naturally would not take Xiao Xiguaqiao's house. He just took advantage of Mrs. Zhong's inattention and shook his head helplessly at the little girl, and then left his personal contact information online.

Zhong Yanhua sat on the sofa with a cold face and no spirit. After saying something to his mother, he went up the stairs. Before entering the house, he turned around and glared at Xu Le endlessly. It was just that the little girl's anger looked extremely cute no matter how she looked.

When Mrs. Zhong sent Xu Le out of the gate, she said a few words apologetically, and after a moment of silence, she said: "The news I received just now, the Joint Chiefs of Staff has decided that Du Shaoqing's Iron Seventh Division will enter Xilin."

Xu Le was shocked, and then he realized why the real content of the previous call was.

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The taxi he called was parked on the side of the villa. Xu Le rejected Mrs. Zhong's proposal to send her a car to her in advance. After saying goodbye, she got into the passenger seat.

Thinking of the two cute looks of Xiaogua in front and behind the dining table, Xu Le couldn't help but smile bitterly. He couldn't understand why Xiaogua was young but always wanted to leave his family. Although Commander Zhong rarely stayed with his daughter, it was obvious that Mrs. Zhong was a pretty good mother.

Maybe it was because of loneliness? Xu Le looked at the mottled autumn leaves outside the window, remembered Tai Zhiyuan in H1, and Zou Yu. The children of the aristocratic family actually had a hard time. He thought that if he could come back alive from the front line in the future, he would take more time to spend with the child.

At this moment, he heard a sound in the back seat and looked back vigilantly. He saw that the chair in the back row was pushed down, and a little girl in a blue student uniform was coming out with dust on her face.

The child Zhong Fireworks worked hard to climb to the seat and sat down. He looked at Prince Xu Le in front of him and smiled, saying, "Brother Xu Le, I'm here."

Xu Le's expression suddenly froze, and the crisp childish voice sounded like thunder in his ears.
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