Chapter 2.2 Missing You

She had no memories of her father and mother, of family, of kinship, but Zhao Yingjun did not speak. She lowered her head to look at Yan Qiaoqiao: "...Do you have a concept of 'father' now?"

A few days ago, when she asked Guo Qiaoqiao if she remembered who her father was, Yan Qiaoqiao asked back what a father was!

It seems that watching TV like crazy these past few days has taught her a lot!

But... is knowledge the same as emotion? Does she not have memories of her father and mother, of family, of kinship, so can she also empathize?

Looking at Zhao Yingjun, Yan Qiaoqiao nodded. "Other kids have them."

Other kids?

"On TV?" Zhao Yingjun asked.

Yan Qiaoqiao shook her head and pointed outside the window: "...The kids in the yard!" Zhao Yingjun asked. Yan shook her head and pointed outside the window: "The kids in the yard!"

Yan Mei walked over at this time and explained to Zhao Yingjun, "Qiaoqiao has started going out to play with the other kids in the neighborhood these days!"

"There aren't many little girls her age; most of them are seven or eight years old!"

"But their mental age isn't that different, so they can still play together. It can be considered that she has made some friends in the yard!"

"And then, well, those kids must have their parents with them, and they are pulled home by their parents when it's time to eat! Qiaoqiao is very envious, not that she is envious, but she often asks me where her parents have gone!" Yan Mei pursed her lips and took a light breath. "Now Qiaoqiao is getting smarter and smarter, and she understands more and more things. Many things can't be hidden from her anymore. She will know sooner or later!"

Zhao Yingjun rubbed Yan Qiaoqiao's head!

Her eyes were stung by her tacky pigtails and fake flower hairpin, so she directly grabbed her hand, picked her up from the sofa, and walked towards the bedroom with her in her arms: "Let's go, I'll dress you up!"

Entering the bedroom! Zhao Yingjun took all kinds of decorations, hairpins, and combs to the table, then patted the stool in front of the vanity mirror and asked Run Qiao to sit down: "Come, Qiaoqiao, sit here and don't move. I'll tie your hair!" Yan Qiaoqiao nodded!

She sat obediently, watching intently as she tidied her hair behind her!

"You are also a girl now; you can't tie these pigtails anymore!"

Zhao Yingjun untied the fake flowers and rubber bands from Yan Qiaoqiao's hair. Combing her hair with a comb, she continued, "Even if others don't say it, other people will laugh at you for dressing so childishly!"

"You are so smart and learn things so quickly, you have to learn to tie your own hair! It doesn't need to be too complicated, and it doesn't need so many decorations. At your age, a clean ponytail is enough, youthful and beautiful!" She used a wooden comb to smooth Yan Qiaoqiao's hair, looking at the length of the hair! Just past the neck and touching the shoulders, it is not too short. A refreshing ponytail should be just right!

It's just that this hair hasn't been trimmed for a while, and the ends are a little rough, but the convenience of a ponytail lies in the fact that everything is tied to the back, and all flaws are no longer obvious!

Zhao Yingjun held Yan Qiao's hair behind her head with her thumb and forefinger! Then she took out a blue elastic hair tie and put it on, repeatedly wrapping the hair inside and out. A refreshing ponytail was tied!

The bangs and temples in the front are just right and don't need to be specially trimmed!

Zhao Yingjun couldn't help but sigh. As expected, appearance and youth are justice. With Yan Qiaoqiao's doll-like exquisite face, snow-white skin, and bright, big eyes, no matter how she is tossed, it is difficult to look bad!

"It's too early to put on makeup, and your skin is very good and doesn't need makeup, so let's just do this. Let me put a hairpin on the front for you!" Because the hair tie behind the ponytail is blue, very wide and very conspicuous, there must be a small decoration in the front hairstyle to balance the color difference, so that it is more comfortable visually!

A simple light pink metal hairpin is enough!

Ordinary but simple and elegant! Zhao Yingjun put this metal hairpin on the top of Yan Qiaoqiao's bangs, and the hairstyle was completed!

"Hmm, what clothes should I wear?": Zhao Yingjun unconsciously had the feeling of playing with a doll and picking out clothes for a doll when she was a child! "A very good feeling!"

As expected, dressing up your own child is more interesting than dressing yourself up! "Your figure is too thin, so it is not suitable for wearing tight clothes, it will appear too dry, weak, and not good-looking! In that case, let's wear a skirt!"

Zhao Yingjun smiled and rummaged through the bags for a cute dress! She has rarely worn skirts in her life! She doesn't remember when she was a child, but since she went to school, she has almost never worn a skirt!

She doesn't like wearing skirts!

But she feels that Yan Qiaoqiao should be very suitable, which can be regarded as making up for her regret that she is not suitable for wearing cute clothes!

In the end!

Zhao Yingjun chose a rice-white, simple, elegant, knee-length dress with no extra patterns or decorations for Yan Qiaoqiao!

Very suitable for Yan Qiaoqiao!

Although Yan Qiaoqiao is only 5 years old, her body proportions are particularly good. Her legs and waist are already very high. She is born to be a clothes rack for this simple and fresh style of clothing!

"Okay, stand up and look in the mirror!" Zhao Yingjun finished tidying up!

Yan Qiaoqiao walked to the full-length mirror next to her and swayed her body left and right: "Beautiful!"

Concise but clear attitude!

Zhao Yingjun smiled inexplicably!

A sense of accomplishment. Do you really think it looks good?"

Yan Qiaoqiao nodded, turned around and looked at Zhao Yingjun: "Thank you, sister!"

Zhao Yingjun was silent!

But if you think about it carefully, it is true!

Let's still call her sister!

She is far from being ready to be a mother. If Yan Qiaoqiao suddenly changes her mind and calls her "Mom," she will not feel any joy, but only bone-chilling horror!

In addition, the age gap between her and Yan Qiaoqiao is too small!

If she goes out and calls her "Mom," I guarantee that 100 out of 120 people will think that she is Yan Qiaoqiao's sugar mama!

Although she is not afraid of shadows, once she falls into the self-proving trap, it is very troublesome to have more things than less!

"You can wear this style of clothes in the future!"

Zhao Yingjun pointed to the bags on the bed: "The clothes inside are all bought for you. You will slowly learn how to match them... Don't ever touch those pigtails and fake flowers on your head again. Even four or five-year-old children don't dress like that now!"

"Otherwise, if Lin... if others see it, they will think I'm abusing children. You have to be more refined in the future!" Zhao Yingjun is very clear that although Lin Xian must have many secrets, many unspeakable identities and purposes, it is inevitable that Yan Qiaoqiao and Lin Xian will recognize each other sooner or later!

If the truth comes out at that time, and then Yan Qiaoqiao is so rustic and uneducated, how can she explain it? This child must be raised well! Then! She led Yan Qiaoqiao out! Zhao Ruihai and Yan Mei were very surprised to see Yan Qiaoqiao's new dress. "Oh, our Qiaoqiao: has become a big girl!"

"Yeah, as expected, little girls still have to dress up. People depend on clothes, which is really true. Suddenly, they look like big children!"

Yan Qiaoqiao also seemed to want to show off her new clothes to her friends and ran straight to the gate. "You two have been taking care of her for a long time and are tired!"

Zhao Yingjun followed Yan Qiaoqiao and looked back at her parents: "Let me take her out to play today!" After saying that!

Like two sisters, they went out together to look for friends in the community!

Yan Mei looked at the two leaving. "Old Zhao, don't you think Yingjun seems to be closer to Qiaoqiao?"

"She used to be very impatient every time she came... always nitpicking. Today is very good... she didn't say anything: she bought clothes for Qiaoqiao and tied Qiaoqiao's hair..." Zhao Ruihai sat on the sofa and smiled with relief: "Blood is such a magical thing. The closeness in the bones is an instinct that can't be resisted. It's just that the cultivation of many emotions requires a process! After all, we two have raised children since we were young, so it's easier to enter the role of grandparents: but it must be slower for young people to accept it!"

"However: I am still very happy to see Yingjun and Qiaoqiao's relationship slowly improving! In this way, we can leave Qiaoqiao to Yingjun with peace of mind after we leave Lianhai. In fact, she also likes Qiaoqiao very much... It's just that our communication methods were a bit inappropriate before!"

Yan Mei also sat down on the sofa!

Cleaning up the fruit peels that Yan Qiaoqiao had just eaten: "Then have you figured out how to leave Qiaoqiao behind?"

"It's definitely not appropriate for us to leave without saying a word and throw Qiaoqiao to Yingjun. Now it's difficult for Yingjun to accept this absurd and scientific matter. I think it's completely understandable. We also have to pay attention to methods!" Zhao Ruihai nodded: "Don't worry, I have a plan in my mind and I know how to handle it smoothly. Let's play with Qiaoqiao for another week. After a week, we will find an excuse to say that we have urgent matters to return to the capital, but we will be back soon and ask Yingjun to help take care of Qiaoqiao for a few days!"

"Then: we will decide when we can't come back. It just so happens that the May Day Golden Week holiday is about to end. It's better for us to take advantage of the few people to take Qiaoqiao out for a few days!"

"I have long been thinking that one day I will be able to take my grandchildren to travel around the great rivers and mountains. I didn't expect that things are unpredictable. Some unattainable wishes will come true!"

Yan Mei put the trash on the coffee table into the trash can!

She shook her head! With emotion, she said: "Qiaoqiao is fine no matter what, but I still hope that she will give us an acceptable answer to why Yingjun has such a difficult fate!"

"Hey, in fact, what you said is also true. Now that the child is already here, so big, what is the meaning of the answer and whether it can be accepted? As far as I am concerned, everyone is healthy and happy now. There is really nothing I can't accept!"

"Okay, then let's play with Qiaoqiao for a while, travel, and then go back home!"

As the May Day Golden Week holiday ended, the staff in various positions began to resume work and began to get busy! Zhao Yingjun has not been to her parents' place since she visited Yan Qiaoqiao that day!

They said!

They want to take Qiaoqiao out to travel and see the world!

Then let them go. Zhao Yingjun didn't care, but continued to put her energy and mind into the work of MX Company!

The work is still very busy!

But in her busy time, she still inevitably thinks of Lin Xian and Yan Qiaoqiao. She had never had this kind of anxiety before, but how could she suddenly enter the role of a family member!

As Wang Ge said, perhaps women enter the role of a parent faster than men enter the role of a father!

These days, she went to Rhine Company next door several times but didn't see Lin Xian!

But she met Wang Ge in the corridor yesterday!

"President Zhao, you're here!"

Wang Ge greeted her enthusiastically. "What's wrong, President Zhao, do you have any instructions?"

"Nothing!"

She smiled: "I just came to see if Lin Xian hasn't been to work these days?"

"Haha, him!"

Wang Ge had a look that you understand: "He is just a hands-off shopkeeper. It's normal for him not to come to work. It's an occasional miracle for him to come. And during this time, I don't know if Lin Xian's body is a little weak or what, he always sleeps during the day and parties at night!"

"I call him five or six times a day, and he never answers. So I'm too lazy to call him now!"

"Anyway, he doesn't answer, so I might as well send him a message!"

"Then every day very regularly, basically at three o'clock in the evening, Lin Xian will reply to my message!"

"Although Lin Xian is still young, he should also pay attention to his health. How can everyone stay up late like this? When you have time later, you can talk to him and ask him to change his routine. What can't be done during the day? Why do you have to sleep during the day!"

Zhao Yingjun listened to Wang Ge's words!

Thinking of her previous guess, her uncle, who was in the national security department and had concealed his identity from his wife for three years, was in a similar situation to Lin Xian now!

He also went on business trips every now and then and didn't answer the phone!

Because of this!

The uncle and his wife had many conflicts over this matter!

But the uncle is indeed a responsible national security officer. Even if they quarreled and couldn't go on several times, he didn't tell the truth in order to keep secrets, for national security, and for the secret mission he was performing! As a woman, Zhao Yingjun sympathizes with this aunt who is in a similar situation of cold violence. It is indeed very difficult to live like this: but at the same time, as a Long Country citizen who enjoys protection and security, Zhao Yingjun also respects the uncle as an unknown hero who is selfless!

It has been difficult to have both loyalty and filial piety since ancient times!

This is destined to be a problem that cannot be achieved!

Presumably!

Now Lin Xian must also be similar to her uncle... performing some secret missions and doing some silent but very great things. She has a hunch! The things Lin Xian is doing must be more dangerous and require more wisdom than her uncle! This is why she has discovered Yan Qiaoqiao's life experience for so many days: she has not contacted Lin Xian!

It's embarrassing to speak and can't open her mouth. Naming this unclear relationship is certainly an important factor!

But the real reason why Zhao Yingjun chose to be silent is that she can feel what important responsibility Lin Xian is shouldering and that Lin Xian has been deliberately concealing all of this! Just like Lin Xian's statement to Wang Ge now! Sleeping during the day?

Ha! How can someone sleep for 1 hour a day and still be stable and not wake up in the middle?

This is fundamentally impossible. Lin Xian must be using sleeping as an excuse to busy himself with other secret things. 0:42 a.m., a corner of Lin Xian's bedroom!

He opened his eyes!

He jumped off the bed quickly, even without rubbing his sticky eyes, and rushed to the desk, turned on the desk lamp, picked up a water pen, and immediately scribbled on the prepared manuscript paper!

Swish, swish, swish!

Swish, swish, swish!

It's like God's help!

It's not that Lin Xian's thinking is so agile, but that he is racing against his limited memory!

As the tip of the pen moved smoothly!

A complex and continuous reaction formula was presented on the manuscript paper!

But this is not the end!

There are still very long annotations and markings behind, which Lin Xian "cannot understand" at all, so he can only copy them out exactly like copying a painting!

Finally!

Before the visual memory disappeared, Lin Xian completely copied out this epoch-making reaction equation that was enough to change the world!

After 60 years, Academician Gao Wen's research results reappeared in the world!

"Hoo!"

Lin Xian breathed a long sigh of relief!

As if he had just had time to breathe!

This reaction formula is too long and too difficult to memorize. It is really the biggest challenge to memorize it in one breath. Fortunately, it was successful and the effort was not wasted!

Then he relaxed a lot!

He rubbed his eyes, drank a glass of water, and continued to write silently, writing out the contents of the manuscript that he had memorized in his mind tonight. He only completed the task until 11:22!

Lin Xian stretched himself!

Sorting out!

Unconsciously, so much time has passed, and the theory of time travel and the construction concept of the time machine left by Academician Gao Wen have been copied back to the real world for the most part!

It is estimated that it will not take a few days to copy it all. Seeing that the time machine is about to be obtained, Lin Xian can't help but be a little excited, imagining that he can also travel freely through time and space like the oriole and the time assassin!

Of course!

He knows better than anyone! Time travel is not such a simple matter. The laws of time and space, how time and space particles return, and the mandatory avoidance of time and space rejection are all problems that must be faced!

But Lin Xian is not in a hurry!

He can first hold this theory in his hands to ensure his technological advantage so that he can seize the opportunity when he really needs it in the future!

Pulling open the drawer! Lin Xian carefully put the manuscript that he had copied back so far. "After copying all the manuscripts in a few days and checking them again? The fifth dream should start the next plan!"

Queen Town! This is Lin Xian's next goal in his dream!

Will there be his own, or Grandpa Wei Shengjin's, gold in the several abandoned safes in the town?

He is also very curious: Who is the queen of Queen Town? He really wants to see her step by step!

Lin Xian stretched himself and looked at the digital clock on the bedside table: 2024, May 12, 0:32... Today seems to be Mother's Day?

He opened his phone to confirm! Indeed... it is indeed Mother's Day! So he opened it and sent a message to his mother: "Mom, Happy Mother's Day!"

"I'm busy with work here, so I can't go back. You and Dad take care of yourselves. Go out for a trip and taste the food from all over the country!" After sending the message, he transferred a big red envelope!

He wanted to put down the phone and go to sleep!

But unexpectedly: the phone screen hadn't gone out yet. Dingdong, a reply from his mother came!

Huh?

Lin Xian felt very puzzled! "Why haven't you slept at this time?"

Or did the phone ring when the message was sent wake her up?

He reopened the phone and found that his mother replied: "Thank you, son. I'm so happy. You are my greatest pride in this life."

Lin Xian smiled and typed a reply: "Why haven't you slept so late? You can turn on the silent mode or airplane mode when you sleep at night, so the phone will ring right away!"

His mother sent a voice message: "Son, after you leave, your dad and I are afraid that we won't be able to answer your call in the middle of the night if something happens to you, so we keep our phones on every night!

"Although you are away from home and you are very capable, and your work ability is also very strong, your dad and I will still worry about you! Not only is the phone not on silent mode, but isn't there also a special concern and a special ringtone function?"

"I asked the neighbor's child to help me set it up. I set up a very loud ringtone for your information!"