Sure enough, a childish voice came from the other end of the computer, “Uncle Fu, are you on the phone with mom?”
My heart jerked, how long had it been since I was hearing Clariana’s voice, hugging her, or talking to her.
With a sour nose, I couldn’t hold back some tears.
Dennis on the other end of the phone handed the phone to Clariana, and Clariana’s soft and tender voice came through, “Mom, are you mom? This is Clariana.”
I was a little sore in my heart, pulling my nerves for a while, I couldn’t say a word, my heart was blocked with gas, it was hard to breathe.
When I didn’t hear my voice, Clariana was a little anxious and said, “Mom, can you hear Clariana?”
My eyes unconsciously tears slipped down, extra pain, shallow draw a breath and said, “Clariana, I’m here, mom … can hear!”
The tears were even more rampant as I spoke.
The Clariana on the other end of the phone was very happy to hear my reply, and for a while, like an idle chatterbox, “Mom, have you eaten? When are you coming home? Uncle Fu and I have been waiting for you for a long time. I whispered to you, I planted a lot of sweet potatoes in the yard, Grandma said, when the sweet potatoes grow small sweet potatoes, you can come back, now they are sprouting, mom, you are not coming back soon?”
I choked up and couldn’t breathe for a while, my tears were like beads without strings, they kept falling, nodding my head, “Well, mommy will be back soon, when mommy finishes her work here, mommy will go back to see Clariana, Clariana must eat well, go to school well, and must listen to Uncle Fu, okay?”
“Mm-hmm!” I can imagine Clariana nodding her little head, “Mom, I’m very good, I can recite a lot of ancient poems, I can write, I can also do arithmetic, yes, Uncle Fu let me start learning piano, I can now play “Little Star”, when you come back, I will play it for you, I can also draw, Mom, I drew you a very Mom, I drew you a very beautiful portrait, when you come back, I will give it to you, Mom, you come back quickly, I will have a birthday soon, Uncle Alex said that when I have a birthday, he will go to HL Area to pick up Mo Bai and Uncle Zhang, then it will be very lively, so, Mom, you have to come back quickly!”
I nodded my head and held back my tears, “Okay, mommy will definitely rush back on Clariana’s birthday and spend it with Clariana.”
Dennis seemed to be talking to Clariana, “Clariana, well, let uncle and mommy talk for a while, okay?”
Clariana, somewhat reluctantly, said into the phone, “Mom, can I ask you for one thing?”
I nodded, my whole body shaking and holding back tears, “Okay, does Clariana want anything for her birthday?”
“No, mom, can I talk to you on the phone every day until you get back? I want to hear my mommy’s voice, so does grandma and grandpa, and last time grandma was crying, she misses mommy as much as I do!”
The child’s voice is tender, words are simple, I nodded in response, hiding a heart full of guilt.
I left because I knew I was incapable of giving Clariana the best and highest quality of life, and that she would be better off with Dennis than with me, but I neglected to mention that she was still a child, and subconsciously, she only had me as a family member, and my leaving was not just fearful, but frightening to her.
Dennis took the phone, probably because he knew I was crying, and his voice was low and introspective, “She’s fine here, she knows what she’s doing, and Alex and her aunts are coming to take her.”
I nodded, my voice a little choked up, “Dennis, thank you!”
He laughed helplessly on the other end, “You and I are already husband and wife, and Clariana is my daughter, so saying thank you is too much!”
I couldn’t help but laugh and took a breath, “As soon as the project in Lanxi Village is finished, I’ll go back and have a good life with you and Clariana!”
He hmmed, his voice low and magnetic, “I’ll wait for you!”
I smiled lightly, thinking of what happened at the base today, and after a pause said, “Dennis, after those machines were stolen from the base, did you find out any information?”
Suddenly changed the subject, he froze for a moment and said, “There is no useful information at the moment, why? What have you found out?”
I nodded, “It’s the wall in the base, the load-bearing wall of the normal building knocked down is no echo, only the wall of the compartment will have, but the back wall of the base has sound insulation, and I looked carefully today, the outer wall of that wall is at least a meter wide, how can a normal wall be that wide?”
He was silent for a while and spoke, “Don’t worry about this, let Toby do the next one, you just continue with the project in Lanxi Village, the George Group will finish it as soon as possible, and try to finish the launch earlier.”
I knew he was worried about my safety, and didn’t say much. There was a knock on the door outside, and it should be Jannings.
After hanging up with Dennis, I got up and opened the door. Jannings was carrying a lot of things and saw me and said, “I knew you were at the hotel, I just went around the snack street and bought a lot of good food, you must like it!”
I looked down and saw that she was carrying a lot of things in her hand, reached out to take them and smiled, “You went shopping alone, huh?”
She nodded, put the things in her hands, looked at me, probably felt wrong, looked back at me again, frowned and said, “Did you just cry?”
I froze and said with a light smile, “Made a phone call home and kind of missed my daughter.”
She hesitated for a second, then looked at me with some exaggeration and said, “You and Dennis both have daughters?”
I nodded and smiled lightly, “Five years old!”
She burst out, “Holy shit, you have a daughter, and you’re still in a frenzy with Dennis before, are you out of your mind?”
I laughed, it’s a long story, it’s not easy to say, I changed the subject and looked at the snacks on her table and said, “I don’t think there’s any flower nail powder here in Lanxi Village, I’ve wanted to eat it for a long time.”
She bought about a dozen copies, each one different, looked at me and said, “My grandfather did not let me eat before, so I am particularly obsessed with these things, it is easy to go out today, I want to eat all bought, intend to try a bite of each, you take these out, open cold, I will call Edward over to eat together, we two can not handle, waste of Food.”
I couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow, “Will Edward eat this?”
She shrugged her shoulders, “He has to eat even if he doesn’t like it, I’ve traveled a long way to get here, he won’t be disappointed.”
I pursed my lips and stopped talking. Sometimes there is no way to explain the logic of a girlfriend to her boyfriend with reason or science.
She turned around and went out of the room, I took all the snacks out of the bag, the forest, about a dozen points, are some of the snacks on the street.
Smell very fragrant, all still steaming hot, she did not go a moment to come back.