The dew is white tonight, and the moon is bright in my hometown.
China's Xichang Launch Base, Zhuque Satellite City.
"Wenqing, please ask the base leader for a few more days of leave this time. You and Guo Yang have been separated and haven't seen each other for a long time, right?"
"Mom, I also wanted to take a few more days off to spend time with my children, but in order to successfully launch the Tianwen-1 Mars probe, the vacation had to be shortened."
Guo Yang returned from the launch site control room, walked through the living area of the satellite city, and came to the door of his home, where he heard the conversation between his mother and his wife. He stopped outside the door briefly, looking up at the sky with a tired expression, staring at the round bright moon in the sky, and exhaled a long white breath.
"Dad is back!"
When Guo Yiming saw his father, he struggled from his grandma's legs, jumped to the ground, ran all the way to Guo Yang, and reached out for a hug.
"Yiming, be careful, don't knock yourself!" Guo Yang's mother got up from the sofa and followed her grandson cautiously.
"Good son! Do you miss your father?" Guo Yang picked up his son and walked into the living room from the door, teasing Yi Ming very happily. He looked at his wife who was warming up food in the kitchen, then turned to his mother and said:
"Mom, what are you and Wenqing discussing?"
"Hey, it's nothing, just some insignificant trivial matters, so don't mention it."
Guo Yang's mother saw her son and daughter-in-law finally reunited, her face filled with endless joy, and then said: "I know your work at the launch base is very busy and tiring, but don't forget to take care of yourself while you are busy. Take more time to connect with each other, for the sake of this family..."
"Mom, what are you talking about! We often call each other..."
Wenqing's cheeks turned bright red when she heard the conversation between mother and son. She tidily cleared the table and a delicious reunion dinner was ready.
"It's time to eat. The food cooked by grandma is delicious!" Yi Ming followed Guo Yang to the dining table.
"You two, eat first, and I'll call the old man!"
"No need to shout, old man, I'm back!"
I saw Guo Yang's father striding into the living room happily carrying a box of moon cakes and fruits.
"Old man, you've spent money indiscriminately again. You haven't collected the down payment to buy a house for your son yet!" Guo Yang's mother looked at the old man with a shameless expression, not seeing any trace of guilt on his face.
"Don't worry, the money was not wasted. These fruits were mailed by fellow villagers from Panlong Village." The old man laughed heartily and explained cheerfully, which confused Guo Yang and his wife.
"It's like this. Pan Tianyi, Guo Yang's childhood playmate, started a business in Shanghai and made some money. Now he has a house and a car. He asked someone to send these fruits and mooncakes from his hometown."
"Is everything you said true? He seemed quiet when he was a child, and his family was poor. But when he grew up, he became very promising!" Guo Yang's mother looked in disbelief.
"Mom, I'm hungry..."
Guo Yiming left his father's arms, sat on his mother's lap, and started crying.
"Okay, okay, stop talking, the food is almost cold, let's eat quickly!" Guo Yang's mother saw her grandson crying and motioned for everyone to sit down and eat quickly.
Guo Yang stood silently beside his wife, looking at the moonlit night outside the window, with complicated emotions.
Since leaving Panlong Village, he moved to the Imperial Capital with his parents, where he studied for a doctorate at Aviation University and later worked in the Eighth Institute of the Chinese Aeronautics and Space Administration CNSA.
His wife Wenqing met while he was studying for his PhD. She and Guo Yang originally worked at the Xichang Launch Center. Later, under the arrangement of the base, she was transferred to the Wenchang Launch Center and began work on the Mars exploration mission.
After dinner, Guo Yiming cried and complained that the space in the living room was small and wanted to play on the community lawn. Guo Yang reluctantly took his wife and son to the public community of Satellite City.
During holidays, astronauts from all over the world gather in the community. They rarely have contact with the outside world, but have established various social platforms in the satellite city to promote mutual understanding and get timely help when encountering difficulties.
On the moonlit night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the crowds in the community park became extremely sparse.
"Have you heard? The Institute of Nuclear Energy, a subsidiary of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been in the news recently! It is said that more than 90 scientific researchers are preparing to resign en masse."
Wenqing held Guo Yang's hand with one hand and hugged her young son with the other, and sighed.
"This matter is indeed worthy of our deep thought. Last year, the Long March 5 failed to launch twice in a row. This has a significant relationship with the loss of a large number of high-quality talents. The current scientific research environment is under great pressure, the budget is extremely small, and wages and benefits are not as expected as outsiders imagine. high......"
In the park, Guo Yang stopped in front of a large stone monument, illuminated by a bright high pole lamp, and a line of large red cursive characters came into view:
Walking into the good night of unwillingness, trying to measure the universe with our limited life, we are all singers of the universe.
"Wenqing, will you support me no matter what I do?" Guo Yang turned around and looked at his beautiful and gentle wife.
"Since we have chosen the stars and the sea, we must move forward fearlessly!"
The wife looked at her husband with her eyes, showed a smile that she had not seen for a long time, and encouraged Guo Yang, "If you are determined, don't lose your way again!"
"It's getting late, you take Yi Ming back to rest first, I'll stay for a while!" Guo Yang kissed Wen Qing's forehead and said.
"I'm going back first, don't stay too long."
His wife Wenqing gave him a gentle hug, then picked up her son and left.
After his wife's back disappeared, Guo Yang took out his mobile phone and browsed his mailbox to see if he had received any recruitment information from other state-owned enterprises. He looked through it and found that the salary offered by several scientific research units was several times higher than the current salary, but this could not make him make up his mind to leave the Xichang launch base, because the "lunar exploration project" was his dream, and he longed for one day He happened to be the first person to land on the moon.
However, he quickly found a high-paying part-time job in his mobile mailbox, so he responded to the email with a trying attitude.
The email quickly replied: “Can you take a photo of the architectural environment around you and send it to me?”
"That's okay. I have some saved in my phone. I'll send them to you first."
Email: "The composition of these photos is pretty good. Have any major events happened around you recently?"
“I’ve been working overtime a lot recently, and several colleagues think the salary is low and the pressure is high, so they are planning to change jobs and join the private company of Internet giant BAT.”
Email: "According to the resume you submitted, your Chang'e lunar exploration project has progressed to the second stage. When will the Chang'e 4 probe be launched?"
"News related to this will be reported in advance. It cannot be kept confidential for now."
Email: "Yes, I understand. These are just casual questions, not important. I hope we can continue our friendly cooperation and you will receive a huge batch of advance funds in your bank account later."
"Ok, alright, Thanks!"
...
The November night was quiet and a little humid, and the typhoon from the seaside symbolically lightly blew past the Pisces Tower in the Magic City.
On the forty-ninth floor, in the office of the president of Rubik's Cube World, Pantian sat straight in front of the computer. He rubbed his throbbing right eyelid, and a message flashed on the computer screen:
On this night in 2018, 18-year-old Xiao Ni jumped from the roof of a 33-story building. The huge campus loan debt of more than 300,000 yuan caused her to end her young life.
"What a beautiful young girl, she died young like this." Pan Tianyi looked at the real-time news and said secretly with regret, and then walked to the floor-to-ceiling window a little tiredly.
There was a flash of lightning outside the window, and it started to rain lightly before entering winter.
Pan Tianyi stared at the gray sky outside the window in a daze, his mind in a mess. Not long ago, he learned that Mr. Liu, the largest head-mounted display supplier that the company cooperated with, was on the verge of bankruptcy. He originally wanted to help him overcome the current crisis, but his offline VR virtual store also failed due to blind expansion. Faced with the situation of funds being cut off at any time.
At this time, He Xiaoying, who is also a financial officer, walked gently into the office. She glanced at the back of the man in a suit standing in front of the window, picked up the glass cup on the table, poured a glass of warm milk, and walked to the window.
"Mr. Pan, please don't stay up late anymore, it will harm your body!"
Pan Tianyi took the tea cup from Xiaoying's hand and was still looking at the high-rise buildings outside the window in confusion. He began to stop evading questions and mustered up the courage to ask about the company's recent operating conditions.
"Please report on what kind of difficulties have arisen in the Rubik's Cube world recently?"
He Xiaoying took the financial report, lowered her head and said hesitantly: "Mr. Pan, the Qianda platform that the company invested in the year before last year has exploded. I applied for a cash withdrawal half a month ago, but I haven't received a notification of the amount being credited."
"Oh, why does this happen? Have the wages of hundreds of people in the company been paid?" When Rubik's Cube World encountered financial difficulties, Mr. Pan was still giving priority to his employees.
"Last month's employee wages have been paid, but Haodai.com has started to collect debts again, and there is an additional 2 million in interest on the company's bill..." He Xiaoying raised her head and looked at the delicate features in front of her. , a man with a cold and handsome face, she became worried for Pan Tianyi.
Pan Tianyi retracted his resolute eyes looking out the window, turned around and looked at her, and said calmly: "I will find a way to solve all difficulties, you go down first!"
"Well, I believe you will always bring surprises. However, you must get more rest, otherwise my sister-in-law will be even more worried!" He Xiaoying said shyly before leaving.
"Well, thank you! This milk is a bit sweet, I like it very much."
Seeing that he was the only one left in the huge office, a strange feeling of loneliness spread to the entire floor. Pan Tianyi seemed to have encountered the greatest failure and pain in his life. What should he do?
Pan Tianyi sat on the sofa with a heavy heart, opened the address book on his mobile phone, and kept searching for the names of his college classmates. In the end, he found that there were only one or two that he could contact.
But when he mentioned borrowing money to his classmates, he looked up at the ceiling and hesitated for a long time, unable to press the phone in his hand. Pan Tianyi became depressed, thinking that in difficult times he didn't even have a single good friend, which was really the misfortune of life. He rummaged through his address book aimlessly. He lost the courage to borrow money, and instead wanted to find someone to talk to about his predicament. At this time, he saw a familiar name, the child Guo Yang who had grown up with him, so he dialed the other party's mobile phone with a relaxed mood...
